A novel about hope breaking through even the darkest days.
They played “Minecraft”—the ship decided—“they wanted to blow up the bridge over the Yenisei.”
They worked as mechanics, doctors, and businessmen—life forced them to create a committee to save their own children.
They were journalists—what they got was a bloody history of provocations and a northern cult.
This is a book of rage: it drives the heroes whose children are in danger.
This is a book about Siberia: the events of the novel take place in Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk.
This is a book about hope: there’s a chance the heroes will manage to stand up to the terrifying northern fairy tale and quench the thirst for blood of the Winter Prosecutor.
A memorial novel, a capsule of time. A book the Russian literary landscape needs today. The ten’s will remember it as the time of insane trials and cruel sentences—the era of the Winter Prosecutor—thanks to “The Committee…” by Zakharov.
Aleksey Polyarинov
Bitter, honest, merciless. A smart and very topical social-psychological thriller.
A novel about Siberia—modern, real, and completely unlike the land of giants from official folklore.
On honor in dishonorable conditions—and about a workshop brotherhood: stale, drunken, sold out, and stripped of meaning in the demolished workshop, yet forcing the heroes to become the heart of a society that lives and beats. To the death.
Shamil Idiyatullin