The Absence of Anna

Marina’s life split into “before” and “after” when her daughter disappeared. Anna simply never came home. Trying to understand and accept what happened, Marina decides to look into herself and goes to the very roots of her motherhood. Her wanderings through the labyrinths of memory lead her to the solution of a strange story—one of an adult and a teenager, both lonely, both lost, both reaching for love. But Marina could never imagine how far these searches would take her. A new novel by writer Яна Летт, who has already won readers’ hearts with her previous cycle “A World with Holes in It.” Atmospheric magical realism will pull you into the mirror-maze of a dream and won’t let go. A novel about finding a loved one through searching for oneself. How well do our parents know us? And how well do they know themselves? A book about family, about a mother and a daughter, about each of us. The novel was praised by writer Ширин Шафиева.