"Two Sisters and Kandinsky" is a vivid testimony of our time—and at the same time a novel-parable about how “the executioner will embrace the victim.”
The theme is eternal—one of the most eternal—and, of course, the sharp, unavoidable question of how it happens. And how exactly will they “embrace”—in what way?
Answering it, Makanin created a penetrating, very “Chekhov-like” text.
But on the other side, we have a timely novel-warning. Enough time has passed since the events described by the author—but what has changed? And was it all really as we’re used to remembering?
There are no direct answers to such questions—always. We’ll live and we’ll see.