Funeral Feast

The hero of the novel, or book-essay, as Roman Senchin himself calls it, "Funeral Feast" returns to his parents' house after his mother's death. He tries to tidy up the little house, renew the fence, picks strawberries from the Victoria variety that he planted with his parents, goes fishing in familiar places from his youth — and remembers, remembers… His childhood and the deceased younger sister, young parents and their distant ancestors who settled in Siberia in the early 20th century, the move to Moscow and the return, marriage and separations, stories told in his books, and yet to be written…

"I have to remember some more. Write. Record. Carve it on paper, as those unknown people did on stone who lived three, five thousand years ago… Yes, write, carving on paper and cutting in my soul. And gallop further at fifty. Start a new phase at fifty" (Roman Senchin).

Roman Senchin (b. 1971) — prose writer, laureate of the "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards. Author of the novels "Yeltyshyov", "Flooded Zone", "Rain in Paris", collections of stories "The Noughties", "The Nineties", "Detonation", biography of Alexander Tinkov in the "LIVED" series.