Our Heart Beats for Everyone

Northern Europe, the second half of the 2020s. From Russia, where a civil war has been ongoing for several years, the flow of refugees does not cease. Among those escaping from the new "Moscow government" and "militiamen" from the breakaway regions are former employees of the propaganda factory and a single mother whose father died due to the propagandists' actions. Each of them is in one way or another haunted by the past in Russia, frightened by the present in the countries where new migrants are not welcomed, and ultimately pursued by a global horrifying future. The author wrote the novel from 2017 to 2019, but after February 24, 2022, he understood that "our reality is even worse than the world described in the book," and added the subtitle "former dystopia."

Writer Konstantin Zarubin hails from the town of Slantsy in the Leningrad region, but in recent years he has been living in Sweden, where he teaches English and linguistics at Dalarna University. Zarubin publishes essays and prose on the internet; his first printed novel—a science fiction detective story titled "Tales of L-Writers"—was released in 2023 and was noted by many critics as the main literary discovery of the year.