Zemlia - Elizarov Mikhail

Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels "Librarian" (Russian Booker Prize), "Pasternak" and "Multiki" (shortlist of the National Bestseller Award), collections of short stories "Nails" (shortlist of the Andrei White Prize), "We went out to smoke for 17 years" (reader's prize "NOS")
Mikhail Elizarov's new novel "Earth" is the first large-scale reflection of "Russian tanatos".
"As such, there is no funeral slang. There's vulgar prosetorial jargon. There, the incoming motorcyclist is mockingly called an "astronaut" who fell from a height - "trooper," "acrobat" or "icarus," drowned - "diver," "ichtinrome," "mum" who died in an accident - "kegle." Perhaps, in some cemetery, a sign-time on the grave will be called a "shovel," a wreath - "bush," and a digger - "mole." This novel is the story of the Mole."
(Mikhail Elizarov)