The Inside Out

A sensational novel by Inga Kuznetsova is written from the perspective of the main character of all the news feeds in the world. And it is… a thinking virus that longs for people.

The plot takes into account both official and conspiratorial hypotheses about the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The hero first ends up in the bodies of animals used in experiments, and then—in the organisms of the “Gigs,” allowing the reader to see the human side in a completely different way than anatomy or psychology presents it.

A virus that longs for humans discovers the paradoxical laws of this world: knowledge of beings is inseparable from consuming them, and love is insatiable. The loving hero has to understand too that because of him people die.

Does it apply to our relationships with each other too? Among the human characters of the novel are not only the most ordinary people, but also a maniac-murderer.

A bold novel overturns familiar meanings, offering an amazing and radically new version of how the universe is arranged.

Inga Kuznetsova is the leader of her poetic generation and an original novelist; a laureate of the literary awards “Triumph” and “Moscow Account.”

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