Zakhar Prilepin is a prose writer, publicist, and musician, winner of the “National Bestseller,” “SuperNationalBestseller,” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards. He is the author of novels “The Obitel,” “Sanya,” “Pathologies,” “The Black Monkey,” and story collections “Sin,” “Shoes Full of Hot Vodka,” and “Eight.” “The Flying Bargemen” includes new essays by Zakhar Prilepin, written in the last three years and previously unpublished: about “liberals” and “patriots,” about children and family, about literature and cinema—these essays have consistently sparked broad debate in society.