We Didn’t Expect You. Artem Chekh

“We Didn’t Expect You” is a novel about loneliness, memory, and art. It’s a story about unhappy people desperately searching for love, and about invisible threads that connect them to the shadows of the past. And about an attempt to return from oblivion: artist Ivan Trush miraculously survives a bloody massacre in eastern Ukraine, where his entire unit is killed. However, having regained consciousness in the hospital, he learns from the news that he is also considered dead, and decides not to deny anything, but to take up the game offered by circumstances. But is he able to predict the ending of this game?