Aviator

Evgeny Vodolazkin is a novelist, philologist. Author. In Russia, he is called "the Russian Umberto Eco", in America - after the release of "Lavr" in English - "the Russian Marquez". It is enough for him to be himself. Vodolazkin's works have been translated into many foreign languages. The new novel by the winner of the "Big Book" award, the bestseller "Lavr" and the elegant historical fiction "Soloviev and Larionov" Evgeny Vodolazkin "Aviator" is a bright event in literature. The book is rated by critics as one of the most anticipated Russian novels of 2016 (according to Forbes, Meduza, etc.).
The hero of the novel "The Aviator" is a man in a state of tabula rasa: waking up one day in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself - neither his name, nor who he is, nor where he is. Hoping to reconstruct the history of his life, he begins to write down the fragmentary and chaotic memories that have visited him: St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century, his childhood at the dacha in Siverskaya and Alushta, the gymnasium and first love, the revolution of 1917, falling in love with aviation, Solovki... But how does he remember the details of everyday life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time so precisely, if the calendar says 1999?..
On the front cover is a drawing by Mikhail Shemyakin, created especially for this edition.

Author: Evgeniy Vodolazkin
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: Elena Shubina Publishing House
Pages: 416
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 210x130x22 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-096655-4