Aviator - Vodolazkin Evgenii Germanovich

Evgeny Vodolazkin is a prose philologist. He is the author of the best-selling book "Laurel" and the elegant historical fiction "Solovyov and Larionov." In Russia, it is called "Russian Umberto Eco" in America - after the release of "Laurel" in English - "Russian Marquez." He's just got to be himself. Vodolazkin's works have been translated into many foreign languages.
The hero of the new novel "Aviator" - a man in a state of tabula rasa: waking up once in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows nothing about himself - neither his name, nor who he is, nor where he is. Hoping to restore the history of his life, he begins to record the memories that visited him, sketchy and chaotic: St. Petersburg of the early 20th century, summer childhood in Siverskaya and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, revolution of 1917, love of aviation, Solovki ... But how does he remember so accurately the details of everyday life, phrases, smells, sounds of the time, if the calendar is 1999?..
On the front of the binder is a drawing of Mikhail Shemyakin, created especially for this book.