About the book: 2019 / "Mesopotamia" is a book about Kharkov and Kharkov residents, the most ordinary people: our neighbors, residents of the high-rise buildings surrounding us, random passers-by whom we meet every day we meet and who turn into passengers of crowded transport, where we are jostling in a single impulse to get to work or study... In general, about you and me. And it is also about our everyday, everyday life, which drags on so much that it seems there is no time left for anything - neither for the great achievements that we dreamed of in childhood, nor for comprehending what is happening, nor for stopping to admire the passing by. us with beauty... Sad? Sad? It turns out not! After all, this is the most important thing - life! And Sergei Zhadan, raising the most important issues in the book - recognition and betrayal, escape and return, tenderness and cruelty - proves that you can get joy from everything. From everything that happens to us in this life.