Zhestko i ugriumo - Rubanov Andrei Viktorovich

Andrey Rubanov is the author of the novels "Patriot," "Ready for War," "Finist - A Clear Falcon." Winner of the National Bestseller and Clear Polyana Awards, a finalist for the Big Book Award.
In the new collection of short prose "Hard and gloomy" on the stage again comes "I-hero" Rubanov, who inherits the artistic-documentary "I-literature" Limonov and Dovlatov - the same as in the novels "Sit and Grow," "The Great Dream," "Yod" and collections " Shameful feats" and "Same Homeland": Soviet boy, soldier, businessman, imprisoned criminal, screenwriter, husband and father.
"Drunk, happy, bad, we stood on the balcony, looked into the yellow windows, inhaled the sour air of the big city and laughed.
We knew everything about everything. We're thirty-five. We were rich and poor, betrayed and sold, beaten and sworn, married and divorced, drunk and tied up, arrested and freed. The oligarchs trusted us with billions, and their wives were afraid to entrust children.
We had no idea who we were. Scoundrels - or heroes? Adventurers - or ascetics?
And so one of us managed to put on paper our reflections, our rage and love. I found the words."