Irina Kudesova is a prose writer, journalist, and translator. She works in France for the TV channel “Russia,” lives in Paris. She translated from French prose by N. Sarrot, F. Sagan, the poems of P. Eluard, A. Dumas, and V. Hugo.
“Wherever You Want” is Irina Kudesova’s third book. The basis of her novels is not a simple search for happiness, but an existential necessity to dare a decisive step that will change your entire life.
Marina, a young artist from a provincial town, comes to Paris—to write its rooftops and narrow streets, to study design… and perhaps find love.
Parisian life, like a carousel, carries her away from family scandals and the lack of order in her life: from a restaurant on the Champs-Élysées to poor immigrant districts, from one man to another, from total despair to a sudden hope…
Wherever You Want… to be. “There” is not so much a point on the map as a state. “There” is simply good for you. Specifically for you: everyone has their own recipe for joy.
But to reach your own “There,” you need to go through fire and water, fall in love with Paris and the blooming cherry blossoms.