A lot in life has been forced upon Alexei Varlamov’s heroes—our contemporaries—together with us deciphering the mysteries of being and, above all, trying to understand life that not only tests a person harshly, but cruelly tears at his heart with agonizingly unresolved questions, condemning him to loneliness.
Since the late 1980s, Alexei Varlamov’s prose has received wide recognition both in Russia and abroad; his novella “Birth” was awarded the “Antibooker” prize.