Belgrade

A new novel from the author recognized as the voice of a generation. This is a book about loneliness, finding yourself, and fighting your inner fears. An atmospheric and moving story where Belgrade is not just a setting—it’s a vivid symbol and an omen of change.

A young writer, Anya, emigrates to Belgrade following her husband, Ruslan. Starting over in a new place is not easy: outside the window is a completely unfamiliar city. There’s no familiar environment, no old friends, no understandable language, and no confidence in her own strength. Her relationship with her husband is strained too; the future feels foggy and unstable. Belgrade presents itself to her as a gray and cold space where it’s hard to find your place—and even harder to keep it.

Not long before leaving, Anya finished a love novel about Chekhov and Knipper. Soon, the lines of the writer’s biography begin to echo her own fate and reflect in her life. Anya will have to overcome more than one obstacle, sort out her own marriage, and look at herself in a new way—perhaps Anton Pavlovich himself will help her with that.

Nadya Alekseeva is a prose writer, playwright, and “a lawless comet among the carefully arranged stars”: her debut novel “Midnight Woman” reached the finals of the “Big Book,” “Yasnaya Polyana,” and “Lyceum” awards, as well as the MHT prize. In 2024 Nadya became the recipient of the special prize “Choice of the Generation” of the “Big Book.”

In the audio version, the novel “Belgrade,” which became the most anticipated book in the fiction prose genre at the International Intellectual Literature Fair non/fictio№26, was narrated by the charming star of new cinema, Marina Vasilieva.