Details

ISBN-10: 1646051157
ISBN-13: 9781646051151
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publish Date: 02/01/2022
Dimensions: 6.90" L, 4.20" W, 0.50" H

Stories of a Life

Translator: Fiona Bell

Paperback

Price: $14.95

Overview

A Russian cult hit by rising filmmaker and author Nataliya Meshchaninova, Stories of a Life is a fierce and tender memoir-novel of one young woman’s experiences growing up around, and despite, men in the post-Soviet malaise of the late ’90s.

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Reviews

"Tearing herself free with screams, taunts, and something very much like poetry, Meshchaninova has given us an obscenely private text as frightening as the novels of Stephen King and as sharply formed as the tragedies of Racine... it's not every year that a voice so pure and powerful emerges in Russian literature." –Galina Yuzefovich, Meduza

"Meshchaninova's scenarios are skin torn to blood, pink glasses discarded as unnecessary, truth uncomfortable for the inhabitants of parallel reality." –Elena Tanakova, Gallerix

"It is not often that people are ready to open up, and only the willingness to open up distinguishes real literature." –Aglaya Kurnosenko

"The author, in general, is not trying to shock, she is simply not afraid to say. But this simultaneous openness and ruthlessness strikes with unexpected force and long action. Leads the reader out of their comfort zone. Makes him an involuntary and seemingly guilty observer." –Elena Makeenko, Gorky Media

"This story is not about disaster, but about what happens to the survivors... This is the new Russian prose."– Vladimir Pankratov

Winner of a 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

2018 NatsBest nominee

Longlisted for the NOS(E) Award

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Details

ISBN-10: 1646051157
ISBN-13: 9781646051151
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publish Date: 02/01/2022
Dimensions: 6.90" L, 4.20" W, 0.50" H
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