Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants: Unbound Firsts 2023 Title

In 1993, Russia was going through a lot of changes after the Cold War and the Soviet Union fell apart. Kostya, a 21-year-old gay man, comes out of the closet and pursues his dreams of working in the theater and finding love, but tragedy strikes when he betrays the people he loves. "Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants" is a gripping thriller and a poignant tale of people in a world where old certainties have crumbled.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Unbound

The Red Hammer Cement Works' canteen block served as the location. It was the typical setup: far from the city, discreet instructions to get there, and disco lights blazing.

Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought about unimaginable change to Russia. With this change come new freedoms: freedom to travel abroad and befriend Westerners, freedom to make money, and even the freedom for an underground gay scene to take root.

Encouraged by the new climate of openness, twenty-one-year-old Kostya ventures out of the closet and resolves to pursue his dreams: to work in the theatre and to find love, as his idol Tchaikovsky never could. Those dreams, however, lead to tragedy—not only for Kostya, but for his mother and for the two young men he loves, as all three face up to the ways they have betrayed him.

Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants is both a gripping thriller and a poignant, very human tale of people beset by forces beyond their control, in a world where all the old certainties have crumbled and it is far from clear what will eventually take their place.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800182202