Nine Nineties

9 hrs. 45 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Anna Matveeva

Narrator Natalya Kaznacheeva

Description

Anna Matveeva is a prose writer, author of the novels “Dyatlov Pass, or the Mystery of Nine,” “Heaven,” “Yes!”; and a collection of stories “Wait for Me, I’ll Die—and I’ll Come Back.” A finalist of the “Big Book” prize and the Yury Kazakov Prize; winner of the Italian Lo Stellato award for the best story of the year.

The heroes of her new book were caught off guard by the nineties—hard, chaotic, and cruel. But for many, those years became a “magic” time when things come true that you couldn’t even dream of. Here, an orphan finds a wealthy, secret adopter; here, a young man instead of going to the army leaves for Zurich; here, a woman condemned to be childless is still, unbelievably, given a child—and in Yekaterinburg Paris can easily be transformed into reality...

Matveeva has an amazing—purely Cortázar-like—talent for leaving meaningful gaps in the narration, which makes the storytelling itself acquire poetic ellipsis, forgive my French.

Viktor Toporov