Notorious Benefactors. An Existential Action Story

Pavel Selukov was born in 1986 on the outskirts of Perm. At thirty he began writing. Now he’s the author of several story collections, a winner of the Kataev Prize and a finalist of “The Big Book” (“To Get Tarkovsky”). “Notorious Benefactors” is his first novel.

Angelina’s husband Boris has died. Angelina and her neighbor Oleg go to scatter Boris’s ashes over Red Square, the Neva, and the Black Sea. But during the trip it turns out that this ritual has serious opponents.

“ This is a novel about an adventure with a noble purpose, in which an action-packed plot happens—along with the protagonist’s reflections on an adventure with a noble purpose that turns out to include an action-packed story.” (Pavel Selukov)

“It’s interesting how a Russian reader will respond to such a road movie that begins with fulfilling the will of a deceased alcoholic and ends with saving the world in every sense of the phrase.” (Aleksey Salnikov)