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| Шкурка бабочки - Shkurka babochki Butterfly Skin Novel. Eksmo, Moscow 2005, 383 pages SOLD to Heyne Germany |
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| НЕТ - NET NYET Novel. Amphora, St. Petersburg 2004, 499 pages Set in the 2060's, 30 years have passed since the "Great Inflation". China has bought Japan. Israel and the Arab world live in peace. Drug possession carries a higher penalty than rape. Developments in plastic surgery have resulted in a new and booming industry: the "metamorphosis" of chimera. People can have their phenotype changed in almost any manner: it started with radical rejuvenating cures and went as far as the transplanting of animal organs (gills, pelts, claws, tails, for example). The global and meanwhile socially acceptable pornography industry has also developed in the face of the disappearing market for ordinary erotic films. Nowadays it is not only the "visuals" that are sold, but also the so-called "biones", spherical data carriers which enable consumers to not only watch the recorded scenes and sensations, but to be able to feel and experience them as well. Whoopy's one night stand with a "morph" is surreptitiously recorded. When she tries to prevent this recording from getting onto the black market she unwittingly ends up the maelstrom of the pornography industry. For Kshisya, a dream has come true: she is a member of a police unit investigating illegal violent pornography involving minors (so-called "snuff"). Head of the investigation is the secretive Skinner. Kshisya is to infiltrate the scene under the guise of an actress and to this end she is metamorphosed into a minor. They manage a coup against one of the studios but, in her next deployment, Kshisya falls victim to gruesome torture. The journalist Hipperstein is also on the trail of the "snuff" phenomenon. No-one really knows whether it actually exists - the post-editing is now so perfect that almost everything can be faked authentically. Kshisya's tragic end, however, brings her former colleague Sukhrab to leak the relevant details to Hipperstein. The suspicion that Skinner is in fact working together with the porn studios is confirmed. Goralik and Kuznetsov paint the picture of a decadent society which, in an age of absolute manipulation of body and mind, appears to be consuming itself. In the midst of this callous, ice cold and profit hungry machinery the protagonists set out on a quest for love, recognition and humanity. And as often as it fails, it is this quest which ultimately brings the novel to its conclusion. |
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| Gorsky-Trilogy Under the cover of the detective story genre, this is a trilogy about the rave, internet and private business subcultures in Moscow. These are three self-contained and authentic vogue novels, told from the both the insider's and the outsider's point of view. Like the author, the hero, Gorsky, currently lives abroad and from this distance the analytical perspective on the radical changes in Moscow is that much sharper. Gorsky is no nostalgic emigrant who has lost his home and friends. The young Moscow generation lives out its new "we" consciousness anywhere in the world. In his realistic portrayal Kuznetsov immerses us in the various layers of a now disparate Russian society. With his psychologically convincing characters he allows us to relive the transition from the Moscow of old to that of today. |
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| Сем лепестков - Sem lepestkov Seven Petals Novel. Amphora, St. Petersburg 2003, 262 pages The psychedelic wave of techno and rave has reached the city of Moscow. It is 1994. Kuznetsov portrays the under 30 generation, for whom alcohol is 'out' and drugs are 'in', who sneer at old, anti-establishment song writers such as Vissotsky and Okudzhava and listen instead to techno, David Bowie and Peter Tosh. They partake of mysticism in small, digestible doses and do not notice that a brutal reality has long since forced its way into the harmless fairytale world of their youth. When Mila is raped by the "Prince of the Kingdom of Seven Petals" and dies in a mysterious car accident shortly thereafter, her friend Oleg sets out to trace the culprit. An apparently unrelated death in a nouveau riche disco leads DJ Anton to investigate. His friend and scene insider, Gorsky, assists him in his endeavours but cannot get actively involved. He was injured in the 1993 Moscow coup and remains paralysed on one side. As a result of a peculiar set of circumstances, they come across a seven-member shareholders' clique whose nouveau riche paradise also seems to be ruled by drugs. In reality, however, other, much more brutal laws are in force. |
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| Гроб хрустальный - Grob khrustalny The Crystal Coffin Novel. Amphora, St. Petersburg 2003, 286 pages The internet took off in Russia earlier than it did in other countries. It was already booming by the time of the presidential elections of 1996. Thanks to a friend, web designer Gleb becomes a freelancer in the motley collection that is the editorial team of an internet magazine. They live in a kind of commune and work together in a Moscow apartment with the address: Khrustalny proezd Nr. 5. When a murder is committed in the stairwell, events start to run away with themselves. Gleb's friend commits suicide and the boss disappears with the company coffers. With the help of Gorsky, who is working as a programmer in Silicon Valley and who is able to give him important clues via email and chat, Gleb manages to unravel a mesh of relationships that goes back to the clique members' school days. |
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| Серенки волчок - Serenky volchok The Grey Wolf .Novel. Manuscript 2004, 260 pages The third novel, "The Grey Wolf", tells of the emerging Russian middle class which is becoming the decisive economic driving force in the city. The 1998 crisis hits them hardest. Masha, a painter, has been well away from it all. At the beginning of the 1990's she left her Russian provincial hometown for Israel. In summer 1998 she returns on a visit to Moscow, at the invitation of a friend: her first trip back to Russia, her first time in the capital city. On arrival she finds her friend murdered in his apartment. The employees of his insurance agency make a particular fuss of her. The fact that they all think Masha is the murdered man's fiancйe makes her suspicious. But by now she is entangled in a criminal situation that she can no longer comprehend. And she is completely alone in Moscow. Now she needs Gorsky's help. He was supposed to have accompanied her but could not get a visa and is stuck in Israel. What was supposed to be a two week holiday has become a trap for Masha. Her time is running out. |
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