Days of Savely

«Cats in literature are not a new theme. I won't list all those who have written about these sacred animals, from Cat Murr by Ernst Theodor Hoffmann to Muri by Ilya Boyashov. And now Savely. We understand that behind the... cats, human beings always shine through. The characters of the Servant – whoever they are, cats or people – are real. Lonely and suffering, laughing and loving. Love in this novel deserves special words. It is, as fate would have it, platonic. The highest of all loves».
Grigory Servant was born in 1983 in Moscow. He graduated from the directing faculty of GITIS (Sergey Zhenovach's workshop), an actor at the Studio of Theatrical Arts, a soloist of the O'Casey group. «Days of Savely» is his first book, the novel entered the longlist for the «NOS» award. This manuscript was discovered by Yevgeny Vodolazkin, who wrote the preface.