'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost brazen book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new—honest, accurate—description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and Russia on TV, power and people...

Dmitry Glukhovsky takes on the most important, most pressing topics of our lives today and speaks about them in the tone used to tell political jokes in the USSR. A sharp, sincere, painful book. A bomb. Laughter through tears. New literature.