Stone Girl Water
7 hrs. 22 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Marina Akhmedova
Author
Marina Akhmedova
Narrator
Veronika Raytsiz
Narrator
Veronika Raytsiz
Description
Marina Akhmedova is a prose writer and journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine “Russian Reporter.” She is the author of books “Women’s Chechen Diary” and “Lessons from Ukraine,” novels “House of the Blind,” “A Suicide Bomber’s Diary. Khadija” (shortlist for the “Russian Booker” prize), “Masterpiece,” “Dances of Devils,” and “Crocodile.”
The setting of her new novel “Stone Girl Water” is a mountain village in Dagestan, seemingly completely cut off from the modern world. As it was a hundred years ago, people believe in ancestral tales and curses, bake czken (a traditional pastry) and embroider a belt for the wedding; here family legends are remembered more often than the war that recently ended. Only Jamila—the teacher—worries that children more and more often come to school “closed off,” in hijabs; teenagers go into the forest, where they live as “true believers.” She stays faithful to traditions and tries to live according to the laws of her fathers, but soon she, too, will have to choose between love and war.
The setting of her new novel “Stone Girl Water” is a mountain village in Dagestan, seemingly completely cut off from the modern world. As it was a hundred years ago, people believe in ancestral tales and curses, bake czken (a traditional pastry) and embroider a belt for the wedding; here family legends are remembered more often than the war that recently ended. Only Jamila—the teacher—worries that children more and more often come to school “closed off,” in hijabs; teenagers go into the forest, where they live as “true believers.” She stays faithful to traditions and tries to live according to the laws of her fathers, but soon she, too, will have to choose between love and war.
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