“Seven Lives” is like that garden of diverging paths, when a person stands on one path, but could take a step to the left or a step to the right and come... somewhere in a completely different life? Or another death? Or the same way?This book is an attempt to go in all directions, come back and retell how it will end.'Zakhar Prilepin'Prilepin tries to trace different branches of fate, find forks in the past — and see how everything would turn out if one small, inconspicuous screw could be turned in each of them....Real great literature; life itself, molded into words, and unalloyed reader's happiness.'Galina Yuzefovich, 'Meduza'“Seven Lives” is perhaps the most personal book by Zakhar Prilepin. There is a lot of the author himself here: with his unquenchable pain, fierce love, unquenchable rage. This book is a reproduced silence: you want to ask your interlocutor about something, but you realize that they will not answer you, because there, deep down, there is something bubbling about that it is not customary to talk about, and there are no such words… So you don't ask him anything. Nevertheless, he answers you.'Sergey Kumysh, Fontanka.ru"My head is spinning from “Seven Lives". You walk around drunk, and happy, and filled to the brim with some important knowledge... as if you were disassembled into cogs — and reassembled, already correctly. You stand there looking at yourself in the mirror: how did I live before that?..The mechanics of building stories are overseas. That's how Ham built his lyrics, Jack London and Truman Capote worked that way. The literary tradition is Russian, from Gogol to Gazdanov and beyond: to Rasputin, Belov. And the style is Prilepinsky. There's no mistaking it.In 'Seven Lives,' Prilepin broke out of the flags again, worked to the limit of his abilities and went beyond this limit."Dmitry Filippov, Literary Russia