Generation M

"Generation "M" - is not a novel, but rather a chronicle, "The Tale of Bygone Years", which in modern language means "a story about the years gone by".
However, not only about the past..."

My generation is the luckiest in the entire five-hundred-year history of Russia. 

In Russian history, almost everything - from the perspective of not "statists", but living people - has been either black-black or gray-gray. Breaths of at least relative freedom were rare and short-lived. A little at the beginning of the reign of Alexander the Blessed, a few years at the beginning of the reign of Alexander the Liberator, a few months after the October Manifesto, a few months after February. And that's it. Again asphyxiation. 

And we were just incredibly lucky. By my count, the "oxygen" era began in the fall of 1986 and lasted until March 2014, when the valve closed again. For more than a quarter of a century, we were either relatively, fully, or again relatively free. So we are - The Happiest Russian Generation. And if we did not preserve freedom, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

My new book is about us. It is called "Generation M." The abbreviation "M." I interpret in different ways, depending on my mood.

Boris Akunin