You Are My Silly Dragonfly

Tatiana Bulatova’s books are easy and captivating to read because they’re written brilliantly, and even when the story deals with dramatic events, you can still feel the unique author’s irony. “Oh, that Lyusya,” “A Big Heart for a Little Woman,” “Mom Washes the Frame,” and many other books are known and loved by readers. “My Silly Dragonfly” is a book about love. But not the kind of love that’s written about in “women’s novels”—true love, which is never easy. The story of Kostya and Masha—a complicated, bitter one—will surely move the reader and make them think about the twists of fate that sometimes deal just to test a person.

Masha looked like a dragonfly: thin, fragile, with big, widely spaced eyes. It seemed that the wind could blow her away. Kostya fell in love head over heels. Her scent made him dizzy; with her he forgot about sleep, food, and those simple human things that filled everyone else’s lives. He would have sat beside her, forgetting about work and friends. And Masha answered him with mutual feelings.

But soon Kostya realized that his Masha wasn’t like everyone else. A subtle, psychological novel, written with irony and a unique storyteller’s voice, about what happens when life interferes in love.