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Shamilʹ Idiatullin — prozaik, zhurnalist, dvazhdy laureat premii “Bolʹshaia kniga”, avtor romanov “Smekh lisy”, “Ubyr”, “Do fevralia”, “Za starshego”, “Byvshaia Lenina”, “Poslednee vremia” i drugie. Gorod Naberezhnye Chelny, on zhe Brezhnev, v vosʹmidesiatye gody znamenit gruzovikami “KamAZ” i ulichnymi podrostkovymi bandami. Zavod, na kotoryĭ rabotaet pochti vesʹ polumillionnyĭ gorod, speshit vypustitʹ armeĭskiĭgruzovik k ocherednomu sʺezdu KPSS, a militsionery pytaiutsia zadavitʹ v zarodyshe molodezhnyĭ bunt. Artur, podrostok iz blagopoluchnoĭ semʹi, mechtaiushchiĭ o nastoiashcheĭ liubvi i vernykh druzʹiakh, pod naporom obstoiatelʹstv stanovitsia uchastnikom zhestkikh konfliktov. On vzrosleet i uchitsia bitʹsia nasmertʹ, chtoby vyzhitʹ “v luchshem v mire gorode luchsheĭ v mire strany”,kotoraia nezametno dlia sebia nachinaet umiratʹ. Na dvore 1983 god…V oformlenii perepleta ispolʹzovana kartinaRinata Voligamsi “Raĭon”. . Kulʹtovyĭ roman, laureat premii «Bolʹshaia kniga». – Istoriia odnoĭ semʹi kak sposob razgadatʹ mif perelomnykh 1980-kh — vremeni, perezhitogo s oshchushcheniem «ėto bylo navsegda, poka ne konchilosʹ». – Roman vzrosleniia na fone bolʹshikh peremen. Podrostkovye bandy, Afganistan, zavodskaia zhiznʹ, shkola, semʹia, damoklov mech griadushchikh sotsialʹnykh i tekhnogennykh katastrof — i pervoe stolknovenie s nasiliem i otvetstvennostʹiu. – Brezhnev (Naberezhnye Chelny) — polnotsennyĭ geroĭ romana. Gorod‑prizrak, vyrosshiĭ v schitannye gody vokrug zavoda vsesoiuznogo znacheniia, vypuskaiushchego KamAZy, zadaet v knige mnozhestvo vektorov: ot memuarno‑nostalʹgicheskikh do ėkologicheskikh i antikolonialʹnykh. – Kniga-panoptikum. Avtor sobiraet pod steklo povsednevnostʹ SSSR: teleperedachi, ocheredi, pionerlagerʹ, komsomol, bytovye ritualy, sozdavaia ėffekt virtualʹnoĭ ėkskursii po ischeznuvshemu miru. – Shamilʹ Idiatullin — pisatelʹ i zhurnalist, dvazhdy laureat premii «Bolʹshaia kniga», avtor romanov «Ubyr», «Boiatʹsia pozdno», «Smekh lisy», «Za starshego», «Byvshaia Lenina» i drugikh knig. Rabotaet v zhanrakh sotsialʹnoĭ prozy, trillera i fantastiki, po sovmestitelʹstvu iavliaetsia mnogoletnim avtorom izdatelʹskogo doma «Kommersantʺ».

Shamil Idiatullin is a novelist, journalist, twice winner of the Big Book Award, author of the novels “Laughter of the Fox", “Ubyr", “Until February", “For the Elder", “Former Lenin", “The Last Time" and others. The city of Naberezhnye Chelny, aka Brezhnev, was famous for KamAZ trucks and street gangs in the eighties. The factory, which employs almost the entire half-million-strong city, is in a hurry to release an army truck for the next congress of the CPSU, and the police are trying to nip a youth riot in the bud. Arthur, a teenager from a prosperous family who dreams of true love and loyal friends, becomes a participant in violent conflicts under the pressure of circumstances. He grows up and learns to fight to the death in order to survive “in the best city in the world, the best country in the world,” which begins to die unnoticed. The year is 1983.…In the design of the binding, the painting “The District” by Karinath Voligamsi was used. . Cult novel, winner of the Big Book Award. – The story of one family as a way to unravel the myth of the turning point of the 1980s, a time experienced with the feeling of "it was forever until it was over." – A novel of growing up against the background of big changes. Teenage gangs, Afghanistan, factory life, school, family, the sword of Damocles of the coming social and man—made disasters - and the first encounter with violence and responsibility. – Brezhnev (Naberezhnye Chelny) is a full—fledged hero of the novel. The ghost town, which grew up in a matter of years around an All‑Union KAMAZ factory, sets many vectors in the book: from memoir‑nostalgic to ecological and anti-colonial. – The book is a panopticon. The author collects everyday life of the USSR under glass: TV shows, queues, a pioneer camp, the Komsomol, everyday rituals, creating the effect of a virtual tour of a vanished world. – Shamil Idiatullin is a writer and journalist, twice winner of the Big Book Award, author of the novels Ubyr, It's Too Late to Be Afraid, Laughter of the Fox, For the Elder, Former Lenin and other books. He works in the genres of social prose, thriller and science fiction, and is a long-time author of the Kommersant publishing house.