The name of writer Zakhar Prilepin first came to public attention in 2005, when his debut novel “Pathologies” was published, about the Chechen war.
Over the next ten years he wrote several more novels, each of which became a symbol of the time and the generation, and he managed to receive the main literary awards. He also hosted authorial TV and radio programs, published articles in newspapers with million copies, recorded several vinyl records of his own songs (including collaborations with legends of the Russian rock scene), went to war, built a house, and is raising four children.
The book “Zakhar,” released for his fortieth birthday, is not a biography—because that time has not yet come—but a “literary portrait”: the writer’s books as part of his (and of the shared) soil and fate; a journey through the literature of the hero-Prilepin and the elemental forces accompanying it—Home, Family, and Revolution.