The Boomerang's Trail

The full vivid spectrum of Soviet and post-Soviet reality in the plot-driven works of Andrei Kivinov. His characters—girls raised in an orphanage, forced to work as prostitutes, “new Russians,” prisoners and police officers, drunks and scoundrels—form the criminal milieu in which innocent ordinary people are forced to exist, not even suspecting it for a while. One thing is reassuring: even these “heroes” aren’t alien to anything human.