In a past life, the hero was a journalist writing about bicycles for a Moscow newspaper. In his new life, he's an FSB agent tracking relocated individuals. However, from the very beginning of the secret operation, something goes awry... Pyotr Turekhin's candid autofiction captures our time in various genres. It's a spy novel, a horror story, a travelogue, and a diary. The seasons, geography, and perspective change. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, and again... autumn. Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Bayeux, St. Petersburg—in each of these landscapes, the author dissects the feeling of being lost, the everyday life of an émigré, relationships between people, and attempts to preserve one's former self/come to terms with oneself by becoming a different person.
Petr Turekhin (St. Petersburg) lives between Berlin and São Paulo. He graduated from the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a degree in literature. He is the author of the novels "Emergence," "Male Sweat," "Direct Feelings," and "Landscapes of Lost Time."