Andrey Rubanov is the author of the novels “Plant and It Grows” (shortlist of the “NATIONAL BESTSELLER” award), “Great Dream”, “Iodine”, as well as “Chlorophilia” (“ABS Award” named after Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ) and “Living Land”. The hero of the novel “Life is Good” is the wine king Matvey Matveev. He started in those crazy nineties, luck was with him. Now, at the end of the 20th century, he is the sole owner of a business, he has a beautiful, faithful wife, a spacious apartment, wine is sold in fifty restaurants... Life is good! One day Matveev leaves to “settle an old issue” and disappears, or rather ends up... in the underworld! The novel “Life is a Good Thing” was nominated for the “BIG BOOK” award.