Prose writer Igor Sakhnovsky is the author of the novels “The Urgent Needs of the Dead”, “The Man Who Knew Everything” (awarded the B. Strugatsky “Bronze Snail” Prize, filmed in 2008) and “Conspiracy of Angels”, collections of stories “Happy and Madmen” "(Russian Decameron Award) and "A Sharp Sense of Saturday." "Freedom by Default" is a novel about love and the inner freedom of a "private" person, by chance involved in political absurdity. The thinnest, almost invisible line separates the life of a modest, unlucky employee Turbanov from the world of those in power, poverty from huge money, law-abidingness from crime, holiday from the end of the world. One day, saving the woman he loves, he crosses this line. The book also includes the novel “The Essential Needs of the Dead,” translated into three European languages, awarded the Fellowship Hawthornden International Writers Retreat (UK) and published by Gallimard (France).