Belgrade

A new novel by an author recognized as the voice of a generation. It’s a book about loneliness, finding yourself, and fighting your inner fears. An atmospheric and heartfelt story in which Belgrade is not just a setting, but a vivid symbol and a harbinger of change. Young writer Anya emigrates to Belgrade following her husband Ruslan. Starting over in a new place isn’t easy: outside the window there’s a completely unfamiliar city. There are no familiar surroundings, no old friends, no understandable language, and no confidence in your own strength. The relationship with her husband is strained as well; the future seems foggy and unstable. Belgrade appears to her as a gray, cold space where it’s hard to find your place—and even harder to keep it.

Shortly before leaving, Anya finished a novel about love by 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, разобраться in her marriage and look at herself anew—perhaps Anton Pavlovich himself will help her with that.

Nadia Alekseeva is a prose writer, playwright, and “an unlawful comet among a mapped circle of stars”: her debut novel “Midnighter” reached the finals of the “Big Book,” “Yasnaya Polyana,” “Lyceum,” and the МХТ awards. In 2024, Nadia received a special prize “Generation’s Choice” at the “Big Book” award. In the audio version of the novel “Belgrade”—which became the most anticipated book in the category of fiction prose of the International Intellectual Literature Fair non/fictio№26—the enchanting star of new cinema, Marina Vasilieva, narrated it.