A Copy of Vera
14 hrs. 24 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Katya Kachur
Author
Katya Kachur
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Description
Katya Kachur’s new novel — by the acclaimed Russian journalist and the author of the bestsellers “The Favorite of the Epoch,” “The Gene of Raffael,” “Irritable Angel,” and “Entomology for the Nervous”— begins with an accident. Vera Petrovna ends up on the edge between life and death. Her son, Pavlik, a copyist artist with a mysterious gift, is doing his utmost to bring his mother back, gathering her memory grain by grain from old photographs and paintings. But the woman who comes to after the coma is already someone else: it’s as if she’s slipping into childhood, speaking other people’s lines and avoiding mirrors. And the further Pavlik goes back into the past, the more unbearable the questions become: who was his mother really? Where does the line run between the original and the copy — in painting, in recollections, in the human soul?
Meanwhile, little Polenyka leaves her grandfather — the famous painting expert Arkhip Mustakas — at a loss by calling him by a nickname that remained from his youth and has long since been forgotten. The girl paints portraits of people she has never met. She is haunted by someone else’s memories. And one day, on her sheet, there appears a woman whom an unfamiliar man named Pavlik is desperately searching for across all of Moscow…
Two stories. Two artists. One life for two. “Vera’s Copy” is Katya Kachur’s new novel about how a connection can be stronger than death, how art can become a curse, and how the most flawless copy can sometimes be more truthful than the original.
Meanwhile, little Polenyka leaves her grandfather — the famous painting expert Arkhip Mustakas — at a loss by calling him by a nickname that remained from his youth and has long since been forgotten. The girl paints portraits of people she has never met. She is haunted by someone else’s memories. And one day, on her sheet, there appears a woman whom an unfamiliar man named Pavlik is desperately searching for across all of Moscow…
Two stories. Two artists. One life for two. “Vera’s Copy” is Katya Kachur’s new novel about how a connection can be stronger than death, how art can become a curse, and how the most flawless copy can sometimes be more truthful than the original.
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