<p><b>From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory love and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia</b></p><p>A man wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov. As memories slowly resurface Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early twentieth century living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon only one question remains: how can he remember the start of the twentieth century when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999? Reminiscent of the great works of twentieth-century Russian literature with nods to Dostoevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment</i> and Bulgakov's <i>The White Guard</i> <i>The Aviator</i> cements Vodolazkin's position as the rising star of Russia's literary scene.</p>