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Kremulator
Pyotr Nesterenko is on first-name terms with death. As director of the Moscow Crematorium during the Stalin era, he has reduced them all to ash: the dissidents, the alleged spies, and the former heroes of the Revolution who have fallen victim to the purges.
He, on the other hand, is convinced he cannot die. He has narrowly escaped death countless times – until the day he himself is arrested. Will he cheat the gallows one more time?
256 pages
2023
978-3-257-07239-6
»The book almost casually delivers a pitch-black commentary on today’s Russia.«
»In the rhythm of terse, cool sentences and with caustic sarcasm, the novel exposes brutalisation and Bolshevik paranoia, in which the Russian war in Ukraine is mirrored as if by itself.«
»Sasha Filipenko stages stylistically and skilfully. His interrogation novel reads like a duel – with terse syntax, quick repartee and razor-sharp humour.«