Cremulator

"The Cremator" is the most famous novel by Sasha Filipenko, a Belarusian author with international recognition. The book, awarded the prestigious French Transfuge prize as the best European novel of 2023, raises themes of war, revolution, and human choice in times of terror. It is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow Crematorium, Pyotr Nesterenko, through whose testimonies and diaries the reader experiences a whole century of history. This is a work about how to remain human in circumstances where human life had no value. The novel has already been translated into dozens of languages and is now presented to the reader in Belarusian for the first time.

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The most famous novel by Sasha Filipenko. The work received the prestigious French Transfuge prize as the best European novel of 2023.

The novel opens with events on June 23, 1941, when the advance of the German army triggers another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, the first director of the Moscow Crematorium, through whose testimonies 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 revolution, emigration and return to the USSR during the times of terror. The author explores the inner world of a person faced with an impossible choice.

Sasha Filipenko (born in 1984) is a Belarusian with extensive journalistic experience. He publishes 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 (with Korean in the immediate plans). They were written in Russian, but this year they were re-created in Belarusian.