About the book: 2015 / Zakhar Prilepin is a prose writer, publicist, musician, winner of the National Bestseller, SuperNationalBest and Yasnaya Polyana awards. Author of the novels “The Abode”, “Sankya”, “Pathologies”, “Black Monkey”, collections of short stories “Sin”, “Boots Full of Hot Vodka” and “Eight”. The book “Flying Barge Haulers” includes new, previously unpublished essays by Zakhar, written in the last three years: about “liberals” and “patriots”, about children and family, about literature and cinema - all of them invariably caused widespread controversy in society.