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4 hrs. 53 min.

Language Russian

Author Rita Bullwinkel

Narrator Natasha Romanova

Description

“Who would I be, if I weren’t myself?” — the first collection of stories by Rita Bullwinkel, where familiar reality keeps breaking apart and putting itself back together, taking on unexpected and strange shapes. On these pages you’ll meet ghosts and a medium, a woman obsessed with harps, and schoolgirls who imagined themselves as plants, Gulag prisoners, love-struck teenagers, a widow obsessed with hair, a snake pretending to be a pear, and even a predator church. These stories are endlessly unusual, sometimes grotesque, yet at the same time unsettling and tender — they blend absurdity with a sharp, recognizable humanity. The characters test the limits of their own bodies, rethink what they once considered real, and try to find answers to the most basic questions of existence: what is consciousness, how love and fear are structured, and where loneliness comes from.

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