Immortal

Olga Slavnikova is a renowned prose writer, essayist, cultural manager, and the author of the novels "Long Jump" (Book of the Year Award), "2017" (Russian Booker Prize), "Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog," "Light Head," and the collection of stories "Love in the Seventh Car." As it is known, it is good where we are not. For the characters in Olga Slavnikova's book, it was good where they were. In their past. But the world is changing, and reality has come knocking without warning. Each adapts in their own way. Alexey Afanasevich, the main character of the novel "Immortal," is helped in this by his loved ones. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a holder of eight combat orders has been bedridden for many years and does not know that there have been monumental changes in the country over the past fifteen years. They carefully show him the news where Brezhnev is still alive and the construction of communism continues, and they read edited articles from the modern "Pravda"... However, the former intelligence officer begins to suspect that something is not right here… The book also includes the stories "The End of Mont Plaisir" and "The Mouse."