Lolotte and Other Parisian Stories

A journey from Paris to Paris.

Every hero of “Lolotta” has their own Paris: the one they dreamed of—yet more often the one they deserve.

Anna Matveeva is a prose writer, author of the novels “Dyatlov Pass, or the Mystery of Nine,” “A envious Feeling of Vera Stenina,” short story collections “Nine Nineties” and “Wait for me—I’ll die and come.” Finalist of the “Big Book” and “National Bestseller” awards; winner of the Lo Stellato prize for best story of the year.

A new prose collection by Anna Matveeva, “Lolotta,” takes us to Paris. Or rather, on a journey from Paris to Paris: from a Western European capital to the village of Paris in the Chelyabinsk region, or to a residential complex named after the famous city, or to a café with the same name. You’ll meet many characters: Amedeo Modigliani, a lonely retired chief, a thief, a French teacher, a literary editor disappointed in everything except the native language…