Beta Male

13 hrs. 11 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Denis Gutsko

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

The main hero of the novel “Beta Male,” Alexander Topilin, is quite satisfied with life. He’s forty, he’s not married, and he lives without obligations. He is a co-owner of a profitable business; his friend and partner Anton Litvinov is the son of a minister. Everything is arranged; all doors are open. Topilin agrees to remain in the second role, to play by someone else’s rules. He’s a classic beta male.
Once, Litvinov knocks a man to death, and Topilin “handles the formalities.” Those aren’t events from his life—but right now he can change everything. All he needs to do is try to play first fiddle…

Denis Gutsko is a prose writer, author of books “Russian-speaking” (the “RUSSIAN BOOKER” award), “Pokemon Day,” “The House in Armageddon.” If his first novels were about young people learning to live without losing themselves, then now the writer is interested in a mature person—someone who has achieved a great deal and lost a great deal.