A global apocalyptic bestseller. Artyom lives with his foster parent in the intricate labyrinth of the Moscow metro, the only place in the world where humanity can survive, at least partially, after a nuclear war. Individual human communities struggle in the metro shafts, where each station is a unique community, a kind of microstate with all its virtues and vices that we know from everyday life on the earth's surface. Artyom finds himself in a station that is considered one of the safe places in the vast network of tunnels, yet this certainty is disrupted by a dark power that threatens to destroy not only the boy's refuge but the entire metro. The young man, who once broke one of the fundamental commandments of life in the metro, is forced to journey from one station to another, traversing the entire Moscow metro to the last station, where preachers live in an ideal social order. They allegedly possess a mysterious object that Artyom must obtain to save the metro from destruction, which threatens not only from within the underground microcosm but also penetrates from the surface in the form of dark forces... The author received the prestigious European ESFS Awards Eurocon 2007 for this novel (the award is referred to as the literary Nobel Prize for sci-fi), as the best literary debut of 2007. The novel...
