Isidor Chagin can memorize a text of any complexity and store it in his memory for as long as he wishes. These phenomenal abilities become a heavy burden for the protagonist, as Chagin is deprived of a simple human joy - the ability to forget. Everything he touches becomes, quite literally, unforgettable for him.
Every great gift is a disruption of harmony. Memory requires oblivion, the word requires silence, and fiction requires reality. In life, they are woven together as tightly as the tragic and the comic in the novels of Eugene Vodolazkin. The novel "Chagin" is no exception. Its characters include Heinrich Schliemann and Daniel Defoe, secret agents, archivists, and masters of ceremonies, as well as a distinct authorial style - as always, one of the writer's main protagonists.
Author: Eugene Vodolazkin
Pages: 384 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 206x135x21 mm
