NRZB

"NRZB" is the poetic prose of Sergey Gandlevsky, whose story develops alternately in the early 1970s and in modern times. In essence, it is the story of an unrequited love—and in general, of life’s failures as the narrator sees them after thirty years have passed. At first, the novel was published in the magazine “Znamya,” where it received the magazine’s prize as a work “affirming liberal values.” In 2002, at the 15th Moscow International Book Fair “NRZB” was recognized as “Prose of the Year.” In 2003, the novel became one of three laureates of the Apollon Grigoriev Prize, awarded by the Academy of Russian Contemporary Literary Studies.