“Bird Flu” is a new novel by a young but already famous prose writer Sergei Shargunov. Its characters want to participate in Russian history. They detonate bombs in cafes, scatter leaflets near the Kremlin, storm mansions on Rublyovka and a colony in Krasnokamensk. Or they curry favor with the authorities, trample on those who encroach on power. Criminals and romantics on both sides of the barricade.