Schatz

The hero of Yuri Troitsky's debut novel is a modern trickster. We do not know his name or surname, there is only the sweet German word 'Schatz' - 'treasure', which he and his wife call each other. Schatz is an entrepreneur who made a career in the nineties and early noughties and regularly finds himself in various predicaments, both absurd and dramatic, and hopeless. Nevertheless, he manages to escape alive from all situations. We observe the growth and development of the hero in the Moscow region and Moscow, and then we will see him in Riga, London, and at seaside resorts. Despite the circumstances, Schatz remains a human everywhere, albeit trying, like his famous predecessor, to practice relatively honest ways of extracting money from the population. The last time we will see the hero is on February 24, 2022, in Odessa - but, of course, this is not the end of his life…