Dmitry Kapitelman

A family from Kyiv sells Russian specialties in Leipzig. Vodka, pelmeni, sailor shirts – and a kind of Eastern European feeling of togetherness. However, the latter is no longer available since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The mother lives in a “Handyrussia” full of fake news and stands by Putin. Her son, who loves no language more than Russian, no person more than his mother, but also no city more than Kyiv, is in despair. It is not wise of him to return to Ukraine in the middle of the war. But what should he do if there is no other way to get his mother back from fascism and the crazy Russian television lies? In his new novel, Kapitelman moves “between humor and shock”, states Jan Wiele from the FAZ.

Dmitry Kapitelmanborn in Kiev in 1986, came to Germany with his family at the age of eight as a “contingent refugee”. He studied political science at the University of Leipzig and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich. He works as a freelance journalist; this is after The smile of my invisible father uand A Formality in Kiev his third novel. He makes music under the stage name “Dheema”.