Everything Is Fixable: Chronicles of Private Life

Alexander Kabakov is a prose writer, journalist, and playwright, the author of the famous “The Unreturner” and “The Runaway.” His novel “Everything Can Be Fixed” received the Apollo Grigoriev Prize and the “Big Book” award.

The private life of the novel’s hero Mikhail Saltykov is the life of an entire generation against the backdrop of Russia’s half-century history. Stalin’s childhood at the edge of the empire, the “stilts” thaw-era youth in Moscow, adulthood that falls on the extreme 90s. As a man of his time, Mikhail easily adapts to a rapidly changing world—though alongside him come both luck and defeats.