Justification

The first novel “On the Trilogy.”

Dmitry Bykov is a prose writer, poet, publicist, and radio and TV journalist. The immensely successful lectures in his series “Direct Speech” are especially popular. He is the author of many novels and original literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice laureate of the “Big Book” prize.

In the novel “Justification,” Bykov offers his own version of the general plan of Stalinist repressions: those who survived, endured, and did not implicate either themselves or others forged— for a special mission—their own fate. The main character, the grandson of someone repressed, in the mid-1990s sets out to look for traces of his grandfather. His investigation turns into a tense fantastic detective story with an unexpected, terrible ending.