Continuation of the 'New Russian Classics' series. The novels 'The Defector', 'The Condemned', and 'The Fugitive' - ​​under one cover!

The return of cult prose: for the 80th anniversary of the author's birth

A book that foresaw the future. 'The Defector' is a predictive dystopia that thundered in the late 1980s and brought the author worldwide fame.

Abstract

Alexander Kabakov (1943–2020) - writer, journalist, playwright; master of psychological prose and intellectual thriller; The author of the novel 'Everything Can Be Fixed' (winner of the 'Big Book' award), the memoir 'Aksyonov' (co-authored with E. Popov), the ironic 'Moscow Tales' and many other works.

The legendary dystopia 'The Defector' brought the author worldwide fame immediately after its publication in 1988 and turned out to be a dark prophecy of the events of 1991. The protagonist of the novel, extrapolator Yuri Ilyich, can travel through time and tries to prevent a civil war in the post-Soviet space...

The total circulation of 'The Defector' has exceeded a million, rave reviews were published in 'The Times', 'The Guardian', 'Nouvel Observateur', and a film of the same name was made in Russia.

The phantasmagoria 'The Condemned' is a logical continuation of 'The Defector', only the action moves to the middle of the 21st century. Yuri Ilyich travels to Stockholm to receive an international award, guarded by those who once tried to recruit him.

The novel 'The Fugitive' is an elegant pastiche of an old diary. Banker L-ov anticipates the catastrophe of the early 20th century and prepares to defect himself.