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"Formula of Love" by Grigory Gorin, summary
This book is a satirical and touching situation comedy, written in 1984. The author took Alexei Tolstoy’s rather dark novella "Count Cagliostro" as a basis and reworked it into a bright philosophical story about the search for the meaning of true feelings.
Sergei Lukyanenko’s "Foresight," a summary
Sergey Lukyanenko’s novel "Foresight" was published in 2023 and centers on a widespread, frighteningly accurate experience: approximately 4 percent of people occasionally find themselves in the Afterworld, where cities are empty, the sky is covered with crimson clouds, mirrors are dangerous, and monstrous creatures roam the streets.
"Francis of Assisi" by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, summary
This book is a philosophical and biographical reflection on the life of the great Catholic saint, published in 1938. The author views Francis as a direct spiritual heir to the Calabrian abbot Joachim of Fiore, who predicted the coming of a new world era.
"Friendzone" by Asya Lavrinovich, summary
This book is a story about coming of age, first love, and complex teenage relationships. Created in 2024, the plot focuses on overcoming teenage cynicism and the fear of genuine feelings.
"Frontline Love" by Andrei Konstantinov, summary
"Frontline Love" is a screenplay by Andrei Konstantinov, presumably written in the 2010s. It’s the story of a military cameraman and a journalist, whose long-held mutual dislike and chance throw them into the same assignment, where war turns everything upside down.
"Cold Shores" by Sergei Lukyanenko, summary
"Cold Shores" is the first novel in the "Seekers of the Sky" duology, written in 1997 and first published in 1998The action takes place in an alternate world where, two thousand years ago, God’s Stepson—the Redeemer—took all iron from the world, hiding it in a special dimension called the Cold, and left humanity with the Word: a rare gift that allows one to place objects in the Cold and retrieve them.
The Clockwork Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
Murakami is still my favorite writer. I slowly read most of his novels. It can be read like a dessert, after some boring book, for example, the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Garcia Marquez.
Alex Hill’s "Worst Friends" Summary
This book, co-authored by Asya Lavrinovich and published in 2021 , is an emotional story of growing up, school friendships, and early teenage mistakesThe plot revolves around eleventh-graders Taisiya Kozyr and Alevtina Makarova, whose long-standing relationship is severely tested by their sudden, blazing feelings for the same boy.
A summary of "Flower with Three Leaves" by Viktor Dashkevich
This book is a historical novel set in feudal Japan in 1595, written by the author in 2017. The plot revolves around the uncompromising political struggle for power following the failed Korean campaign of the aging dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Cyanide by Christina Stark, summary
Christina Stark’s novel Cyanide, published in 2022, centers on the story of a young woman who, step by step, recognizes violence where she initially saw love and fortuneThis story has a raw, everyday edge: Stark depicts not abstract drama, but the slow subjugation of another’s will, when fear, shame, and dependence undermine the ability to clearly assess what is happening.
"Chagin" by Evgeny Vodolazkin, summary
"Chagin" is a novel about the archivist and mnemonist Isidor Chagin, written by Evgeny Vodolazkin and published in 2022 by Elena Shubina Publishing HouseThe book is structured as a dual narrative: first, a documentary chronicle constructed from Chagin’s own diary entries and commentary by the young archivist Pavel Meshchersky; then, Meshchersky’s correspondence with a woman named Nika.
"A Watch for Mr. Kelly" by Arkady and Georgy Vainer, summary
This book is the literary debut of the renowned writing duo, brothers Arkady and Georgy Vainer. Published in 1967, it introduces readers to Stanislav Tikhonov, a young inspector in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department.
"What’s the Price" by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
This book is a short satirical story, first published in 2008 in the magazine "Russian Pioneer" and later included in the collection "Stories about the Motherland." With dark humor, the work describes the brutal underbelly of Moscow’s 19th-century construction projects, where human life has a strictly fixed price and migrant workers literally become biological raw material for a clandestine industry.
"Through Thorns to the Stars" by Kir Bulychev, summary
"Through Thorns to the Stars" is a literary screenplay co-written by Kir Bulychev and director Richard Viktorov in 1978 and published in parts under the titles "Daughter of Space" and "Angels of Space".
"Draft" by Sergei Lukyanenko, summary
This book is a science fiction novel, published in 2005, about an ordinary young Muscovite who is erased from his normal reality by unknown forces in order to serve at a customs post between parallel worlds.