The Great Tushino Darkness

Pomp and mockery, nostalgia for the past—and mysticism inside everyday life, the signature humor—and a higher meaning, brutal realism—and urban legends, rumors, and anecdotes… Ivan Okhlobystin’s inventive style is fully revealed in his new novel, where rebellious teens from the eighties boldly act, their worried parents, inventing drunkards, high-culture Gypsies, famous rockers, retired intelligence heroes, enterprising cops, tolerant priests, hardened followers of Porfiry Ivanov, imagined spies, phantoms of Russian history—along with a goat, a rabbit, and a human brain in a flask… The setting is Tushino—above and below ground. In short, with Okhlobystin you definitely won’t be bored.