Description

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Andrei Monstyrski's semi-autobiographical novel Kashira Highway is set in the early 1980s and tells the story of an artist's nervous breakdown.
Juxtaposing the gray world of Brezhnev-era Moscow and the lurid landscape of the protaginist's imagination.

About the Author

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Prolific prize-winning Andrei Monastyrski is an author, poet, artist, and art theorist, and along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the leaders of the Moscow Conceptulist movement. In 2003 he received the Andrei Bely Prize for his contribution to Russian literature. He was also granted the Soratnik Prize in 2008, and the Innovation Prize (for Art Theory) the following year.