New edition of the novel: dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the author's birth

A large-scale family novel, awarded the Big Book Prize and the Apollon Grigoriev Prize.

One of the most significant reflections on the fate of post-Soviet man in the literature of the 2000s.

Abstract

Alexander Kabakov (1943-2020) - novelist, journalist, playwright; author of the acclaimed 'The Defector,' the elegant 'Fugitive,' the ironic 'Moscow Tales' and other works. Films have been made based on Kabakov's novels, and his books have been translated into many countries.

The novel 'Everything Can Be Fixed: Chronicles of a Private Life' was awarded the 'Big Book' prize.

The life of Mikhail Saltykov, the hero of the novel 'Everything Can Be Fixed,' is the life of an entire generation against the backdrop of half a century of history. With extraordinary attention to the details of everyday life of a bygone era, Saltykov recalls his childhood in a military town in the 1950s, the basics of black marketeering and jazz in the 1960s, his hip youth and maturity, which coincided with the years of perestroika; There are love affairs, betrayal of loved ones, denunciations, lost treasure, and money that vanished without a trace.

'This novel contains so much love for a wrong, futile person, so much respect for the awkwardness of our earthly path, that you truly begin to believe in the omnipotence of life.'

Sergey Shargunov