Sin

Zakhar Prilepin — a novelist, journalist, musician, winner of the «National Bestseller», «SuperNatBest», and «Yasnaya Polyana» awards. Author of the novels «The Habitation», «Sankya», «Black Monkey», «Pathologies», «Some Won't Go to Hell», and the story collections «Seven Lives», «The Eight», and «Militia Romance».

A small provincial town and a quiet village, lost in the tumultuous nineties.
The unnoticed transformation of a boy into a man: from barefoot childhood with discoveries and tragedies that last a lifetime, — to tender and fragile youth with first unrequited love, to drunken and foolish revelry of youth, to astonished fatherhood — with responsibility already for his children and his woman.
«Sin» is a reflection and love, joy and courage, boyhood, dissolved in blood, and happiness, taut as a sail, ringing summer and greedy joy of life.
A poetic, subtle, piercing, very personal story of a protagonist named Zakhar.


«The main character does not deviate from his “Hemingway” line of behavior: he digs graves, loads bread, fires from a grenade launcher, kicks unruly visitors out of the pub — in a word, he invariably keeps the level of testosterone in his body on the verge of intoxication».
Lev Danilkin, «Afisha»


«There is too much greedy joy of life in this text; that which is sharply piercing in the feeling of each moment, no matter what it is filled with, even if with grief or despair».
Alexander Garros, «Expert»


«“Sin” both endears and falsifies, it brings tears and strikes hard. The main thing is that in all of this there is a felt and thus seemingly real feeling; what cannot be taken away from Prilepin is the irrational love breaking through even the most troubled soil».
Alexander Gorbachev, «Rolling Stone»