Cremulator

The most famous novel by Sasha Filippenko. The work received a prestigious French prize. Transfer as the best European novel of 2023.

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the German army's advance unleashes another wave of anti-spy war in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigation of the first director of the Moscow Crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the fate of a person against the backdrop of significant events of the first half of the 20th century: wars and revolutions, emigration and return to the USSR during the time of terror. The author explores the inner world of a person faced with an impossible choice.

Sasha Filipenko (born in 1984) — A Belarusian with vast journalistic experience. He is published in world-class press and actively defends common sense and humanity.

Sasha Filipenko's novels have been translated into French, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, English, Croatian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, Slovak, Thai, Turkish (and soon Korean). They are written in Russian, but this year they were rewritten in Belarusian.