Another case of me reading to a deadline, getting in the way of my actual enjoyment. I did definitely enjoy parts of this though. If you asked me about characters or plot events, I would struggle, but I left with a myriad of emotional responses to the text that other similarly perplexing novels haven't given me. Perhaps it's mainly because I was listening to the soundtrack while reading but I did get serious Disco Elysium vibes from this. Sad soviets, at the edge of their own personal apocalypse, searching for answers that may not exist.