Tabiya thirty-two. Novel

2081. After the catastrophe, the country was isolated from the outside world. Russian literature, declared the source of all troubles, was replaced by chess, and instead of the novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev, schools and universities study the games of Karpov, Spassky and Botvinnik. Kirill studies the history of chess in graduate school, falls in love, gets jealous, and lives the life of a completely ordinary young man - until a series of sudden discoveries threatens all his ideas about the world. "Tabia Thirty-Two" by Alexey Konakov is a phantasmagorical puzzle novel about the fatal patterns of fate, and a witty linguistic experiment in the abolition of imperial thinking, and a gripping dystopia about attempts to once and for all solve the question of how we should organize Russia. Alexey Konakov is a literary critic, essayist, poet, independent researcher of late Soviet culture, laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize, co-founder of the Leon Bogdanov Prize.