Dmitry Glukhovsky is best known as the creator of the legendary Metro 2033, a novel that developed into a trilogy and gave rise to open writing projects.
Dark, surprising, fast-paced and emotional post-apocalypse master of the genre – upholding the best traditions of the iconic Metro 2033, and at the same time completely different!
“What’s over there on the other side of the bridge?”
The history of Russia has practically come to an end. Although some try awkwardly to write its next chapters, the matter is obvious to most: it is over. Even though children are still being born, even though Yegor has fallen in love with Michelle hopelessly, even though Palkan continues to call Moscow and beg to replenish his exhausting food reserves … Yes, Russia is basically gone; her nervous system – the network of transport and telecommunications connections – has been broken, damaged, or at best severely damaged, and does not seem to have recovered. This is why the 250 kilometers separating Moscow from the Yaroslav post seems to be a dizzying distance. That is why there, on the other side of the bridge, there is nothing left – except for empty, dead, eternally dormant cities. That’s what Pałkan says. And he would like
But if so, if the world is empty beyond the Volga, why is the bridge so closely guarded? Why are the sentries staring so intensely at the impenetrable green mist that surrounds him? Why does every murmur, rustle, murmur that comes from behind the curtain of toxic fumes, make them on their feet, or even frighten them? Were they expecting someone – or something – to come from there?
And just comes today. It emerges from the fog. Will it bring salvation or doom? Redemption or Damnation? What does he know, what is he hiding, what he wants? How will you intertwine your fate with the residents of the Jarosław Post?
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Glukhovsky’s outpost is a multi-dimensional post-apocalypse. On the one hand, the reader receives a full-blooded thriller, which is full of twists, tensions and expressive characters. On the other hand – as in the case of Glukhovsky – we have a lot of magical realism, things that are unexplained, even impossible. The next layer is – again, as is usual for this author – a subtle, but very accurate and brilliant criticism of Russia’s never-dying imperial aspirations, which regenerate earlier than the destroyed infrastructure of a superpower that does not care for an individual or even entire communities. Finally, we have the criticism of religion – the person of a jurodiw, insane (are you sure?), Deaf clergyman is its extremely fertile matrix.
OutpostIt will satisfy both those readers who love Glukhovsky for his extremely vivid, suggestive, dark and intense approach to the post-apocalypse, as well as those who appreciate him for the depth of his emotions, brilliance of observations and the accuracy of his critique of political, religious and social systems. In a word: Outpost is another book by Glukhovsky that you must read!
Premiere on March 24!
The book can be purchased at Empik.com .