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Evgeniĭ Chizhov - avtor knig "Tëmnoe proshloe cheloveka budushchego", "Personazh bez roli". Predydushchiĭ roman, "Perevod s podstrochnika", voshël v short-list krupnykh literaturnykh premiĭ i udostoilsi͡a premii "Venet͡s" Soi͡uza pisateleĭ Moskvy. Novai͡a kniga, "Sobiratelʹ rai͡a", - o nostalʹgii. No ne stolʹko o toĭ sentimentalʹnoĭ ėmot͡sii, kotorai͡a khorosho znakoma bolʹshinstvu li͡udeĭ poslednikh sovetskikh pokoleniĭ, skolʹko o bezzhalostnoĭ neodolimoĭ ti͡age, ovladevai͡ushcheĭ chelovekom, kogda nichto chelovecheskoe nad nim bolee ne vlastno i ni realʹnostʹ, ni sobstvennyĭ razum ego uzhe ne uderzhivai͡ut. Ėto kniga o li͡udi͡akh, chʹi͡a molodostʹ prishlasʹ na devi͡anostye; o tekh, kto razoshëlsi͡a so svoim vremenem i zabludilsi͡a v chuzhom; o syne, ishchushchem matʹ, ushedshui͡u ot nego v proshloe.

Yevgeny Chizhov is the author of the books "the Dark past of the future man", "a Character without a role". The previous novel, "Translation from podstrochnik", was included in the shortlist of major literary awards and was awarded the "Crown" of the Union of writers of Moscow. The new book, The collector of Paradise, is about nostalgia. But not so much about that sentimental emotion, which is well known to most people of the last Soviet generations, as about the ruthless irresistible pull that takes hold of a person when nothing human over him is no longer in power and neither reality nor his own mind is no longer holding him. This is a book about people whose youth was in the nineties; about those who have lost their time and lost in someone else's; about a son who is looking for a mother who has left him in the past.