“Tuning in to the Audience” by Anton Ponizovsky is a novel about Russia and the Russian soul. It sounds loud—and there’s no other way to put it. This is a book of genuine human stories, full of love and patience, anger and tenderness; a narration about ourselves—both kindred and strangers, irreconcilable or forgiving… different. These stories are life itself: you can’t erase it, you can’t correct anything in it. But it’s also a book about two men and two women who listen to other people’s stories and don’t notice how clever sparring turns into hatred, and rivalry turns into love. “In this book, all of Russia told on itself in the first person.”
Leonid Parfyonov
“Not many books today that I can recommend to my friends to read. This one—I will insist that they read.”
Tatyana Lazareva
“‘Tuning in to the Audience’—a huge breakthrough in modern Russian prose.”
Vitaly Kaplan, magazine “Foma”
“Ponizovsky managed to solve the most complex artistic task… an old-fashioned-by-scope and absolutely modern-by-material Russian novel.”
Sergey Kostyrko, magazine “New World”
“It seemed that the time of real Russian Novels had passed, that the breed of writers who would take on the task of telling about the meaning of suffering, forgiveness, and the Heavenly Jerusalem had long since gone extinct; but life remained the same as it was during Dostoevsky’s time. And here, Anton Ponizovsky wrote a true Russian Novel—classic and innovative at the same time: the kind of Russian Novel the 21st century should have.”
Lev Danilkin, magazine “Afisha”