The Screenwriter
8 hrs. 19 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Svetlana Pavlova
Author
Svetlana Pavlova
Narrator
Darya Savelyeva
Narrator
Darya Savelyeva
Description
A love test. A piercing novel about the anxieties and hopes of thirty-year-olds.
In an ordinary game at a friendly party—“I Never…?”—Zoya, a beginning screenwriter, says: “...didn’t take an HIV test.” Those words seem to trigger an invisible mechanism: while the hours of waiting for the test results stretch endlessly, Zoya builds a list in her head: Yan, Andrey, Vitalik. In her memory, separate episodes from novels surface—smiles, words, embraces. But now these memories sound different.
A book about how we search for love at thirty, hoping it will solve all problems—and realizing that it doesn’t. About magical thinking that steers us, about fear of a diagnosis and foolish myths surrounding it, about finding oneself and those rare people whose friendship remains real.
Paraphrasing a classic, our whole life is a series, and we are all the screenwriters in it.
Svetlana Pavlova is a writer and winner of Forbes’s annual “30 to 30” ranking. She is a graduate of the HSE Master’s program “Literary Mastery.” Her “not-too-thick novel” “Hunger” made it to the shortlist of the “Yasnaya Polyana” prize, and her new novel “Screenwriter” received the first “Lyceum” award for young prose writers and poets.
In an ordinary game at a friendly party—“I Never…?”—Zoya, a beginning screenwriter, says: “...didn’t take an HIV test.” Those words seem to trigger an invisible mechanism: while the hours of waiting for the test results stretch endlessly, Zoya builds a list in her head: Yan, Andrey, Vitalik. In her memory, separate episodes from novels surface—smiles, words, embraces. But now these memories sound different.
A book about how we search for love at thirty, hoping it will solve all problems—and realizing that it doesn’t. About magical thinking that steers us, about fear of a diagnosis and foolish myths surrounding it, about finding oneself and those rare people whose friendship remains real.
Paraphrasing a classic, our whole life is a series, and we are all the screenwriters in it.
Svetlana Pavlova is a writer and winner of Forbes’s annual “30 to 30” ranking. She is a graduate of the HSE Master’s program “Literary Mastery.” Her “not-too-thick novel” “Hunger” made it to the shortlist of the “Yasnaya Polyana” prize, and her new novel “Screenwriter” received the first “Lyceum” award for young prose writers and poets.
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