Its The End Of The World My Love Alla Gorbunova Elina Alter Translation by Alla Gorbunova, Elina Alter (translation) 9781646052103, 9781646052363, 1646052102, 1646052366 instant download after payment.

Children, students, beggars, young poets; Alla Gorbunova's heroes & heroines live their lives intensively, balancing between longing & euphoria in their lives in St. Petersburg.

But Gorbunova's stories are far from everyday life: she looks at a fragile & dangerous reality with uncompromising tenderness, above all capable of transforming her characters.

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Alla Gorbunova has published five books of poetry & received the Andrei Bely Prize for her 2019 collection Inside Starfall. Her first collection of short prose, Ings & Oughts, was published in 2017 by the Saint Petersburg publishing house Limbus Press. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages. 

Elina Alter is a writer & translator living in New York. She is an oral history fellow at the Yiddish Book Center & the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation & international culture. 

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“It can be assumed that this is a book about the author's childhood & adolescence in the 1990s. Or maybe it’s a fictional childhood, or any human, it doesn’t matter. One way or another - this is a book of amazing power, frank & somewhere even cruel, full of the most crystal tenderness. Teenage neuroses & everyday post-Soviet absurdity merge here with ancient fairy-tale archetypes & dark forest witchcraft - in order to reach the final to the dazzling light of the eternal child's Motherland, where all is love & joy, & everything is always for the first time. " — Yuri Saprykin