The Great Gopnik

This is a multi-faceted novel, which the author himself defines as a "comedy of horrors". This book collects together scenes of visions, family chronicles, love adventures, humorous pranks, and mystic insights written in a somewhat ironic manner. At the center of the novel is the conflict between culture and state in Russia. The state embodies a collective existential portrait of the ruler of modern Russia, who spares no one, without pity, is focused on his bloody immortality. The novel has been translated and is being translated into different languages.