About the book: 2017 / In Vladimir Medvedev's novel "Zahhok" the exotic and terrible world of Central Asia comes to life. The setting is Tajikistan, the time is the civil war of the early 1990s. At the center of the novel is the fate of a Russian family, unwillingly left in the Pamir mountains and falling into the hands of the new owners of the country. The author is also a native of Tajikistan. After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian people left the imperial outskirts, just as the Romans, Spaniards, English, and French once left their colonies, but they took away this world on the soles of their shoes. Born from the dust left on them, “Zahhok” testifies that the disappeared empire continues to live in the Russian word.