Sadly, they choose to repeat the mistakes of the past, re-creating factions of neo-Nazis and communists, alongside the Dark Ones, a new race of mutants, burned black by the atomic blasts (a metaphor for Russia’s growing fear of darkskinned immigrants).
At 18, he published his first novel, Metro 2033, a post-apocalyptic dystopia inspired by the chaos of 1990s Russia and set in Moscow’s subway system, where the last survivors of a global nuclear holocaust retreat to rebuild society. He was 10 when the Berlin Wall fell, 12 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Dmitry Glukhovsky’s life story reads like a Hollywood Cinderella tale, seasoned with a strong dose of Russian fatalism.
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