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Dmitry glukhovsky is a journalism and foreign relations graduate of the hebrew university in jerusalem. Just wanted to talk about it as last light is about to be released. The fate of the main character interested him, of course, but if he was killed then he could just pick another book off the shelf one with a happy ending. He has studied and worked abroad for extended periods including time in israel, france and germany and speaks five languages. It has been followed by two sequels, metro 2034 and metro 2035, and spawned the vast metro media franchise. Excellent story and atmosphere, just like the game, which i only played halfway but will go back after i finish reading 2033. May 27, 2014 metro 2033 is the book that formed the basis of the popular video game series for which it is perhaps better known, set in a world that has been devastated by nuclear war, where the remains of what is left of humanity have been forced to seek shelter in the moscow metro system. Dmitry glukhovsky is the russian author of the original metro book series. The story follows the protagonist artyom, a survivor of the nuclear bombing of his country russia, now surviving in the remains of the old world, inside the vast metro system of moscow, russia.
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