The year is 2081. After the catastrophe, the country was isolated from the outside world. Russian literature, declared the source of all ills, was replaced by chess, and instead of the novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev, schools and universities study the games of Karpov, Spassky, and Botvinnik. Kirill studies the history of chess in graduate school, falls in love, experiences jealousy, and lives the life of a completely ordinary young man—until a series of unexpected discoveries threatens his entire understanding of the world. Alexey Konakov's 'Tabiyeh Thirty-Two' is at once a phantasmagorical puzzle novel about the fateful patterns of fate, a witty linguistic experiment in the abolition of imperial thinking, and a gripping dystopia about attempts to once and for all resolve the question of how we should reorganize Russia.