The protagonist of Yuri Troitsky's debut novel is a modern trickster. We don't know his first or last name, only the cute German word “Schatz” — “treasure” — which he and his wife use to refer to each other. Schatz is an entrepreneur who made his career in the 1990s and 2000s and regularly finds himself in various predicaments, some absurd, some dramatic, and some hopeless. Nevertheless, he manages to get out alive every time. We watch the hero grow up and come of age in the Moscow suburbs and Moscow, then we see him in Riga, London, and seaside resorts. Despite the circumstances, Schatz remains a human being everywhere, even if, like his famous predecessor, he tries to practice relatively honest ways of taking money from the population. We will see the hero for the last time on February 24, 2022, in Odessa — but, of course, this is not the end of his life...

— Berlin: Freedom Letters, 2024. — 140 p.

ISBN 978-1-4457-9668-0

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Yuri Troitsky

Finalist on the shortlist for the Dar 2026 Prize. Writer

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