Novel "Revers"

Student: Hmelnickis Stefans

Educational Programme: Creative Writing (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

“Does the US really exist? Or it is it a product of repressed consciousness controlled by totalitarian power through the media?” — ask the main heroes of the novel students of engineering faculty loser Stephan and Rainbow Men Max. And where to look for real life, if everything around you seems to be dead? According to the good old recipe of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the characters gain a new life on the road. Now their fate depends on chance — the quarter coin, which Stephen found after his childhood trip with his grandmother to Israel. Would they manage chaotic power of the road, which is half a point for knowing what is really real? Their childhood dreams and own personalities.

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