About the book: 2017 / Alexey Slapovsky's new book "Unknown" bears the subtitle "novel of the century" - the events cover exactly one hundred years, 1917–2017. One hundred years of obscurity. This is a story of one kind - in diaries, letters, documents, stories and dialogues. The heroes of the novel are a peasant who fell into the millstones of the NKVD, his son who wanted to become a pilot and tank driver, but went to serve in this very NKVD, his grandson-artist who dreamed about pure creativity, but who fell into the advertising business, and his young daughter, teaching worldly wisdom to her grandmother, a former ardent Komsomol member. “Each generation begins to live as if anew, inheriting the only thing that we always have - a series of changes with an unpredictable result».