Oleg Zaionchkovski

ABOUT THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
"The author has drawn tremendous attention to someone driving the wrong way down a one-way street - and then it turns out that there is in fact no sign at all prohibiting anyone from proceeding against the flow of ‘contemporary literature’."
LEV DANILKIN

"He loves his characters not because he sympathises with them but because he loves them. His heroes do not manage to become completely bad. They pause shortly before the fall from grace, like a dust particle suspended in a ray of sunlight."
LEV PIROGOV

"Zaionchkovski’s new piece of prose is everything at once: brutal and touching and sad and happy."
NOVY MIR

ABOUT HAPPINESS IS POSSIBLE
“"Artlessness is the defining aspect of Zaionchkovsky’s diction: the absolute harmony of style and dramatic development seems to be entirely natural, it “happens” to the author in the same way as various events constantly happen to his character."
ANDREW BROMFIELD

“As if coming out of nowhere, an absolute harmony of style and drama”.
TIME OUT

“Zaionchkovski has written an astute book but one that comes from the heart...”
ANDREI NEMZER

“Oleg Zaionchkovski makes Moscow small and cosy, and turns its residents into friendly, small town neighbours... this is classic mood prose. What mood? Good mood, pure and simple. And anyone who is not happy with that is beyond help”.
MAYA KUCHERSKAYA

“Zaionchkovski is one of those narrators with a natural charm, so at ease with themselves and so self-sufficient that they have no need of an energizing topic or a genre as a crutch, no superfluous dramatics – he simply has enough talent by himself to create something”.
LEV DANILKIN

“The new novel from Oleg Zaionchkovski is a successful combination of everyday stories and a philosophy of patience and empathy – precisely what once characterised Russian literature”.
NATALIA KURCHATOVA