Rosa

“The Rose,” Oksana Vasyakina’s novel in the auto-fiction genre, continues her exploration of relationships with family, reality, and with herself. “The Wound,” the debut book of the trilogy, was a farewell to her deceased mother; “The Steppe” is a monologue about her father and his difficult fate. In the concluding novel of the trilogy, “The Rose,” the writer tries to unravel the mystery of her aunt Svetlana’s such a short life. From small fragments of memory, like a puzzle, a complex image emerges—where heavy relationships with her mother, everyday instability, and indifference to her own fate coexist with almost childlike vulnerability and purity.
— The audiobook is recorded in the author’s own performance—an unique opportunity to hear how the writer herself feels her text and what emphasis she places in this story.
Oksana Vasyakina is a poet, writer, and curator of cultural projects, co-founder of the “Literary Practices” school. She has been awarded literary prizes “Lyceum” and “Nose.”
The novel “The Wound” has been translated into English, French, German, Czech, and Finnish. “The Rose” was included in the shortlist for the XVIII season of the “Big Book.” ,– . ,– .