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Center of gravity

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The debut novel by Alexey Polyarinov, a writer, translator of D. F. Wallace, and an expert on American postmodernism. This is a novel about the current events — about the development of IT technologies and their unpredictable consequences, about contemporary art and the confrontation between man and the system. Its characters grew up in the 90s. The book opens with a story written from the perspective of a boy named Petro: first friendship and sympathy, problems at school, a detective story with a search for a mysterious lake — his mother’s fairy tales become an organic part of the narrative. However, new storytellers then enter — his brother Yegor, their half-sister Marina, their friend Grek — each of whom has their own, distinct point of view on the events. Fragments of manuscripts and interviews invade the text. The story quickly turns from a family saga into a dystopia with elements of cyberpunk. Experimenting with form and structure, creating a novel within a novel, in the finale the author brings all the lines together, and the mosaic canvas becomes a complete picture.
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