Metro 2033

Author's name: Dimitri Glukhovsky Publisher: Nineveh Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: We are now in the year 2033. A devastating blow struck all of Europe, and the world turned into rubble and ruins, becoming a frightening underground world. Humanity has almost extinct, and only a few thousand remain, not knowing if they are the only survivors on this planet. They live in the Moscow Metro, the largest shelter protecting from air raids, built by humans. Humanity in its last refuge in a world with no tomorrow, and no place for dreams, plans, or hope. A world where only the instinct to survive at any cost remains. Dunkha is the inhabited station in the far north on this line, which still remains safe. A new terrible danger appears there. Artyom, a young man living in Dunkha, is assigned a mission to penetrate the heart of the tunnel and go to the legendary police station to warn everyone and alert them to the deadly danger, and to seek help. He holds the future of his station's residents in his hands, as well as the future of the metro and perhaps the future of all humanity. The Russian novelist Dimitri Glukhovsky is the creative voice of the Metro series, which began its life on the internet in 2002 as Metro 2033. His passion for the Moscow Metro inspired him to write the novel, as he grew up in Moscow and traveled by metro daily. One day, he discovered that the Moscow Metro is the largest nuclear shelter in the world. It was planned, engineered, and implemented as a shelter. The metro opened in 1935 and now includes 188 stations with tunnels totaling 194 miles. It has 102 lines and provides transportation for 7 million people daily. Some unconfirmed reports also mention a second, deeper tunnel for a government and elite metro, known as Metro 2 or D6.