Cadavers

"If you look at the dead for too long, they will talk to you." The events of the new novel by Alexey Polyarinov unfold in a world where thirty years ago a catastrophe occurred and cadavers - frozen figures of dead children - appeared all over the country. The main characters, Matvey and Dasha, go on an expedition to the south of the country to study the mysterious anomalies. During the journey, they discover how the presence of the dead has changed the life of the living and how the living have become accustomed to sharing space with the dead. "I wanted to write a book about the end of the world. But not as swift as it is usually depicted in pop culture. I wanted to show a long and painful end of the world, when people live inside the apocalypse for many years and eventually get used to it." - Alexey Polyarinov "Reading Alexey's novel, you feel like you've found yourself in a dusty, barren steppe, but at the same time full of life. With its own rules and peculiarities of existence that force you to choose which side to be on. The more you immerse yourself in what is happening, the more often you scroll through the images of what happened in your head. Like filmstrips, pictures appear that paint a story that is hard to tear yourself away from." — Misha Nikatin, artist