“Buying” is a story about how cynicism and irony are not universal armor. The heroes of the novel are the author’s peers and contemporaries. Musicians, football players, journalists, political strategists... They were unlucky with the era. They are acutely aware of the fleeing youth, perhaps that is why their dialogues are so fragmentary and coded, and their love does not imply continuation... “Bullying is a chain reaction that constantly occurs in our society, no matter what the years are in the yard. This reaction cannot be stopped: in the novel there is an inserted fragment of a dystopia, which looks like a parable for all times - in it, as you guess, they are also poisoned.” (Mikhail Belkin)