"Depeche Mode" is a novel about youthful maximalism and the death of old age, a book about friendship, hatred and betrayal, a story about hope and despair. Punk as a life strategy, music as a habitat, religion as opium for the people, post-industrial Kharkov as the setting and the main character... Sergei Zhadan’s first novel “Depeche Mode” (2004), has already been translated into eight languages.