Alone

The novella “One” is included in a collection of novellas and stories. The collection by Irina Muravyova includes both works already known to readers and new pieces—about which the journal “New World” responded as about a text that presents “a brilliant command of language.”
The author is not afraid to address the most hidden and dark sides of the human soul—those that we ourselves most often prefer not to look into. But an extremely honest view of the world—her calling card as a writer—unexpectedly reveals islands of love where, it seems, they could not exist: behind prison bars, in a house full of suffering of an alcoholic, and even in the beastly soul of a circus bear.