Sixteen-year-old Marta climbed out of the window of her room in the boarding school, went out to the highway, and started to vote; a motorcyclist picked her up — that's where it all began.
Lost, the girl spends two weeks in the forest, and she is being searched for. But her escape changes the lives of everyone who comes into contact with it: the motorcyclist, a journalist leading the investigation, a village hunter who set out to search… “Rurik” is the story of one escape; a novel about how everyone's life, ordinary and boring, can suddenly hit a crossroads on a rural road, forcing them to choose which way to turn.
“This is a book about reserves where ancient gods hide, about motorcycles that cannot replace freedom, and about social networks that help people ignore themselves and their own real lives. This is a mystical thriller made from photographically accurate sketches of our contemporaries’ lives. There is neither nostalgia for the Soviet past nor fear of a totalitarian future. A novel that takes place here and now.” (Galina Yuzefovich)
Anna Kozlova is a writer and screenwriter, author of the novels “F20” and “Rurik”, and a laureate of the “National Bestseller” award.
