Dance Nowhere

"Andrei Filimonov — prose writer, poet, journalist, author of the novel “Recipes for the Creation of the World” and the collection of stories “I Step onto the Road”, finalist of the awards “Big Book”, “National Bestseller” and “NOS”.

The new book “Dance Nowhere” — a magical journey novel, where any point on the map becomes a reason for an exciting story, and any attempt by the author to write a text turns into an adventure.

The hero goes through mystical experiences in the Altai mountains at the “Lake of Mountain Spirits” and meets “tadpoles and saints” in the village of Askhat on the Chuya tract, dances “horizontal dance” with a specialist in Shambhala in Riga, writes an “encyclopedia of the wind” and climbs onto someone else's balcony in Paris, asks for directions to a wine and vodka kiosk from pimps in Harlem and shoots a documentary in Hemingway's cottage on the border with Canada… And a conversation with a random hitchhiker leads to a grand project: in 1978, American photographer Nathan Farb shot five thousand portraits in Novosibirsk and illegally exported them"