My Real Name: Stories with a Biography

A deeply personal autobiography by a writer whose life is very much like a novel!

Ludmila Ulitskaya’s new book of autobiographical prose is a personal, deeply intimate account of a person’s encounter with herself. Time is limited to the present, since the very fact of the future is called into question. The world has shrunk to the size of a room where books are reread; pages of a diary are turned; old loves and friendships are relived. Emotional memory includes much, including the “black holes” left in place of people who have gone forever. And all of this is the material from which the stories and memoir essays that make up this book were created.

“Only after death does a person truly learn their real name, when an angel places a white stone with that name into their hand.” Ludmila Ulitskaya