The last time the Russian writer Artem Mozgovoy (Kemerovo, 1985) left his mother's house, he destroyed all his childhood and youth diaries. "I didn't want to leave them and I couldn't take them with me. It was very sad, because all those notebooks contained my loves and heartbreaks, the good and bad things I had experienced up to then," explains Mozgovoy. Paradoxically, that gesture would give birth some time later to his first novel, Spring in Siberia, which was originally published in English in 2023 and has now arrived in bookstores in Catalan from Comanegra with a translation by Jordi Martín Lloret. Once settled in another country, when he already felt "safe, a new man", Mozgovoy began to dig into his memory.