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Center of gravity

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The debut novel by Alexey Polyarinov, a writer, translator of D.F. Wallace, and a specialist in American postmodernism, is a novel about current events—the development of IT technologies and their unpredictable consequences, contemporary art, and the confrontation between man and the system. Its characters grew up in the 1990s. The book opens with a story told from the perspective of a boy named Petro: his first friendship and affection, problems at school, a detective story involving a search for a mysterious lake—his mother's fairy tales become an integral part of the narrative. However, new narrators then emerge—his brother Yegor, their half-sister Marina, and their friend Grek—each with their own distinct perspective on the events. Fragments of manuscripts and interviews intersperse the text. The story quickly transforms from a family saga into a dystopia with elements of cyberpunk.

Experimenting with form and structure, creating a novel within a novel, the author brings all the threads together in the finale, and the mosaic becomes a coherent picture.
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