Growing up in the 90s like a terrible fairy tale: “The End of the World, My Love”—a book laureate of the NОS-2020 award! Detailed, skin-deep realism is intertwined with bizarre phantasmagoria to convey the complex experience of growing up in the 1990s.
Every poet is a shaman, and they handle words magically—even when writing prose. That’s probably how Alla Gorbunova manages to convey the inexpressible when telling about her characters: children, students, the poor, young poets balancing between longing and euphoria, holiness and downfall.
Alla Gorbunova is a poet, prose writer, critic, laureate of the “Debut” award (2005) and the Andrey Bely Award (2019).