Riding on a star

"Riding on a star" is a novel about Minsk, which no longer exists, and about something that never existed. Pavel Antipov created a story full of humor, sadness and unexpected metamorphoses of the city. This is a book about friendship, about the search for real moments, and about how to live in a volatile and changing world.

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The second book by Pavlo Antipov is a well-written, sustained novel that combines unusual artistic reflection and minimalist understatement. An original autobiography full of humor and nostalgia, where the main plot is not what the author writes about, but how he does it. The Minsk of this novel is unstable, it flickers in time, new buildings are crumbling, giving way to the city that stood in their place, and sometimes something that was never there appears. In this translucent, unreliable Minsk, there is a company of unruly young people who manage to live a real life for a short while.