How Do You Like That, Iron Mask?
7 hrs. 21 min.
Description
Igor Savelev is a journalist and prose writer. Author of novels “Tereshkova Is Flying to Mars,” “Zевs.” Awarded the “Lyceum”-2018 prize for the sharp social story “The Lie of Hamlet” about the generation of “hipster collaborators” (Lev Danilkin).
In his new novel “How About This, Iron Mask?” the son of a Russian vice-premier, a Cambridge student, returns to Moscow at his father’s request and gets caught in the vortex of a coup. If only one could understand—who currently holds power, and how to escape from this.
“Alex first felt that his father wasn’t alive anymore. When they started writing about it at The Times, The Sun?.. How many days does it take for a Russian putsch, as usual, to devour itself?”
“— Is it true?
— What?
— That you ‘betrayed Mr. P.’
— How did you find that out?
— That’s what they write on Facebook.”
“The author managed to find an angle and a language adequate to the new fake challenges, the chaos of boiling, and the political absurdity. Undoubtedly, this is an important novel.”
Olga Slavnikova
“A fantasmagorical life of Putin’s ‘new nobility’ from the very beginning predictably attracted major satirists—those who exposed it, condemned it, and mocked it.
But only Savelev managed to do what neither Pelevin, nor Dorenko, nor Sorkin, nor Prokhanov could—translate the main phrase of the 2010s into the language of fiction: ‘THEY F—G DID IT’.”
Lev Danilkin
In his new novel “How About This, Iron Mask?” the son of a Russian vice-premier, a Cambridge student, returns to Moscow at his father’s request and gets caught in the vortex of a coup. If only one could understand—who currently holds power, and how to escape from this.
“Alex first felt that his father wasn’t alive anymore. When they started writing about it at The Times, The Sun?.. How many days does it take for a Russian putsch, as usual, to devour itself?”
“— Is it true?
— What?
— That you ‘betrayed Mr. P.’
— How did you find that out?
— That’s what they write on Facebook.”
“The author managed to find an angle and a language adequate to the new fake challenges, the chaos of boiling, and the political absurdity. Undoubtedly, this is an important novel.”
Olga Slavnikova
“A fantasmagorical life of Putin’s ‘new nobility’ from the very beginning predictably attracted major satirists—those who exposed it, condemned it, and mocked it.
But only Savelev managed to do what neither Pelevin, nor Dorenko, nor Sorkin, nor Prokhanov could—translate the main phrase of the 2010s into the language of fiction: ‘THEY F—G DID IT’.”
Lev Danilkin
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