• Obitel got "Big Book literary award" in 2016. It received rave reviews from many Russian literary critics.
• Rights sold: France, Italy, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Macedonia, Slovenia, UK, Germany.
• Sold over in Russian: 149K.

　　The book received the Big Book literary award in 2016 and got a number of rave reviews from Russian literary critics.
　　The scene is laid in Solovetsky Archipelago in late 1920-s. So, the book tells tragic life stories of　several prisoners of Obitel (Solovki prison camp).　Artem Goryainov serves his sentence in prison for the murder of his father. 27-year-old son caught his father with a mistress and took vengeance for his mother.　Artem committed neither political nor ideological crime, but a prison warden houses different people: former white officers, murderers and intelligentsia, accused of ideological crimes.

Zakhar Prilepin：
　　Zakhar Prilepin is a Russian TV presenter, journalist, and the author of over a dozen books and several collections of essays.
　　Zakhar got a degree in philology but had to do unskilled physical job to support his large family. Zakhar did his service as a contracted leader with the Special Forces during the Chechnya conflict and in Dagestan. It greatly influenced Zakhar’s attitude to life and sorted out his priorities. Prilepin is known for having an opinion and is regarded as a man of the people. Prilepin’s independent views, social　consciousness and lucid prose has made Zakhar one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in Russia.
　　In 2004 Zachar debuted with his novel Pathology and the Russian literary scene liked the unique style of a promising author. The author’s books are published by Elena Shubina team (the eponymous literary fiction imprint in AST Publishing Group) and have been reprinted many times. The characters of his books are the ordinary people of a society, and a lot of the stories are based on true stories and can be regarded as autobiographical. Prilepin has a plethora of prestigious literary prizes and his books have been translated into many European languages.

2011 Super National Bestseller
2008 National Bestseller Award，Rusophonia France
2007 China Best foreign novel of the year，Yasnaya Polyana，Russia's true sons
2006 Russian Booker Prize，National Bestseller，Evrik-Prize
2005 Inspire Paris，Literaturnaya Rossia，Roman-Gazeta