Aviator

New novel from the bestselling author of "Laurel", the winner of the prize "Big book" and "Yasnaya Polyana", the finalist of the "Russian Booker". The most anticipated Russian novel of 2016, according to Forbes, and Meduza. The cover picture of the iconic artist Mikhail Shemyakin created specifically for this book.

Evgeny Vodolazkin, novelist, scholar. Bestselling author of "Laurel" and fine historical fiction "Solovyov and Larionov". In Russia it is called "Russian Umberto Eco," in America after the release of "Laurel" in the English - Russian Marques". Him enough to be himself. Artworks Vodolazkin translated into many foreign languages.
The hero of the new novel "the Aviator" - a man in a state of tabula rasa: waking up one day in a hospital bed, he realizes that he doesn't know himself exactly nothing, neither his name nor who he was or where he was. Hoping to restore the history of his life, he begins to record visited his memories, fragmentary and chaotic: the St. Petersburg early twentieth century, suburban childhood in Siverskiy and Alushta, high school and first love, the revolution of 1917, in love with aviation, Solovki... But how does he remember so accurately details of everyday life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time, if the calendar in 1999?..