Reminds me a lot of Lem and the films of Tarkovsky. Beautiful and bleak. Immersive, effortless world-building. Frightening and funny as well. Better without all the meta stuff in Volodine's usual work (at least what I've read of it). Very visual.
Twenty-seven years after burying the leftovers of a banquet in an art project, the place is excavated, but together with the leftovers a body is found. Who is the dead person and who killed him? The hardest thing for me with this book was keeping track on all the people, there were a lot of names ...
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