“Antiu-topia, also dystopia (Dystopia literally “bad place” from Greek δυσ ‘negation’ + Greek τόπος ‘place’) and kakotopia (Kakotopia from Greek κακός ‘bad’)—a community or society that appears undesirable, repelling, or frightening. For antiutopias, dehumanization, a totalitarian system of rule, ecological disasters, and other phenomena associated with societal decline are characteristic” (“Wikipedia”).
The country changes inevitably, quickly; the actors of change are bustling and reckless. Those who are calm are watching. For now, they watch. Their planning horizon is far away. Neither the first nor the second are good or bad. Everyone wants to stay alive. Everyone wants to preserve what they have. And hardest of all will be those who want to preserve a lot.
A bad place. A cursed place. Here live ghosts of the past, and sometimes they are more alive than the living. The outline of the future is blurred, and we walk on, tightly holding the bony hand of the skeleton from our shared closet.
This book is a secret master plan for the country’s development, accidentally ending up in the author’s hands.
Get ready.
© Olga Romanova