2017

Olga Slavnikova’s novel “2017” is a dystopia set in the near future, in the centenary year of the October Revolution. At the center of the plot is a love story between the warden of a gemstone reserve and an enigmatic woman named Tanya. Against the backdrop of their relationship, revolutionary unrest brews within society, culminating in carnivalesque riots that reenact the events of a century earlier. The novel was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 2006.