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Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin's terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity.One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer's. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories. Alexander is a young man whose life has been brutally torn in two.Tatiana tells her young neighbor her life story, a story that encompasses the entire Russian 20th century with all its horrors and hard-won humanity. Little by little, the old woman and the young man forge an unlikely friendship and make a pact against forgetting.

SHORTLISTED: EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE 2022 “If you want to get inside the head of modern, young Russia, read Filipenko.”—SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH (Nobel Prize winner, 2015) A heart-wrenching novel exploring both personal and collective memory spanning Russian history from Stalin's terror to the present day. Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she’s losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment block, she resorts to painting red crosses on the doors leading back to her apartment. But she still remembers the past in vivid detail. Alexander, a young man whose life has been brutally torn in two, would like nothing better than to forget the tragic events that have brought him to Minsk. When he moves into the flat next door to Tatiana’s, he’s cornered by the loquacious old lady. Reluctant at first, he’s soon drawn into Tatiana’s life story – one told urgently, before her memories of the Russian 20th century and its horrors are wiped out. The two forge an unlikely friendship, a pact against forgetting giving rise to a new sense of hope in the future. Deeply moving, with flashes of humour, Red Crosses is a shining narrative in the tradition of the great Russian novel.

V svoem predyduschem romane ("Krasnyj Krest", 2017) Sasha Filipenko shiroko ispolzoval realnye istoricheskie dokumenty. V ego novom proizvedenii sama izobrazhennaja realnost pretenduet na rol dokumenta epokhi. Dlja samykh nedoverchivykh: tut net nichego pridumannogo. Est gorodok, gde gradoobrazujuschee predprijatie - tjurma. Est detskij dom, v sudbakh obitatelej kotorogo melknul problesk schastja. Situatsii, geroi, dialogi i dazhe sposoby politsejskikh pytok - vse vzjato iz zhizni. I prokljatyj vopros o tsene dobra, kotoroe pochemu-to oborachivaetsja zlom, tozhe postavlen zhiznju. Tochnee - smertju. "Sasha Filipenko otnositsja k tem molodym avtoram, kotorye srazu stali sereznymi pisateljami. Khotite uznat, o chem dumaet sovremennaja molodaja Rossija, chitajte Filipenko" (Svetlana Aleksievich).Redaktor: Timakova Tatjana

Debjut! Klassika zhanra, khimicheski chistyj produkt: i moloko ne obsokhlo, i srazu roman, i srazu o glavnom, i nikakoj politkorrektnosti, i bez ogljadki na "talsjuevskikh", i - poluchilos. Obajatelnyj i talantlivyj veduschij telekanala "Dozhd" darit svoim pervym chitateljam redkuju vozmozhnost - spustja mnogo let skazat detjam ili vnukam: "Sasha Filipenko? Pomnju-pomnju, kak on nachinal - "Byvshij syn". Ne chitali? Nu kak zhe tak! Ochen rekomenduju".Sasha Filipenko zanjal pervoe mesto v konkurse "Russkaja premija" za 2014 god v nominatsii "Krupnaja proza".izdanie stereotipnoe.

V odin fevralskij den v kazhdom dome pojavljaetsja slon. Ogromnyj. Molchalivyj. Neproshenyj. Nikto ne znaet, otkuda on vzjalsja i zachem prishel. Odni delajut vid, chto nichego ne proiskhodit, drugie pytajutsja razobratsja, treti - pishut ob etom v kommentarijakh.Novyj roman Sashi Filipenko - o strakhe i smelosti, o ljubvi i otstranennosti, o ljudjakh, kotorye stolknulis s tem, chto bolshe ikh samikh, - i vse ravno pytajutsja zhit dalshe. Eto kniga o tom, kak ostavatsja chelovekom v sovremennom mire.Ob avtore: Sasha Filipenko - pisatel, dramaturg i publitsist, chi teksty perevedeny bolee chem na 20 jazykov. Rodilsja v Belarusi, zhivet v Shvejtsarii. Ego proza - sochetanie politicheskoj ostroty, dramy i istoricheskogo konteksta.Filipenko besposchadno opisyvaet istoriju i sovremennuju realnost - ot tragedij odnogo cheloveka do kollektivnykh travm tselykh pokolenij. I pri etom kazhdyj ego roman - o ljubvi.Sasha - odin iz samykh izvestnykh golosov belorusskoj literatury i aktivnyj kritik avtoritarnykh rezhimov. On prodolzhaet pisat i vystupat publichno, nesmotrja na ugrozy, zaprety i davlenie. V ego knigakh - ne tolko sila khudozhestvennogo vyskazyvanija, no i grazhdanskaja smelost.

Vazhnaja chast novogo romana Sashi Filipenko - krossvord. Zhestkaja formalnaja ramka, v kotoruju dejstvujuschij geroj - pri vsej ego svobode voli i tvorcheskoj nepredskazuemosti - objazan ulozhitsja. Inache zamysel ne vyrulit k finalu. Vtoroj sovershenno formalnyj priem - slony v gorode. Izbitaja metafora, ne dopuskajuschaja variantov prochtenija: slony - eto problemy, takie ogromnye, chto ne zametit ikh nelzja. No okazyvaetsja - mozhno? I geroj romana, satirik-stendaper, zhizn kladet na to, chtoby ego sograzhdane ochnulis ot moroka. Sistema, v borbu s kotoroj on vstupaet, pytaetsja ego samogo prevratit v problemu dlja obyvatelej, "sdelat slonom". No u geroja est moschnyj resurs soprotivlenija - on vljublen. Vnachale vzaimno, zatem bezotvetno - vozljublennaja predaet ego. Problemy pered geroem nerazreshimye, za granju chelovecheskikh vozmozhnostej. Najdetsja li volshebnoe sredstvo ot raschelovechivanija? 34 po gorizontali: Chuvstvo, kharakterizujuscheesja glubokoj privjazannostju i ustremlennostju k drugomu cheloveku. Shest bukv. Vtoraja "ju", pjataja "v".

Book in Belarusian language. One day in February, an elephant appears in every home. Huge. Silent. Uninvited. No one knows where it came from or why it came. Some pretend that nothing is happening, others try to figure it out, others write about it in the comments. Sasha Filipenko's new novel is about fear and courage, about love and detachment, about people who have faced something that is bigger than themselves - and still try to live on. This is a book about how to remain human in the modern world. Filipenka S. Slon Sasha Filipenko, Sasha Filipenka. Slon (Elefant, belarus.ed.)