It's Dark There

Maria Lebedeva (born 1991) is a literary critic. “It’s dark there” is her debut novel.

Kira works in a hostel and wants to write a book. Yasa studies at school, and everyone will exhale with relief when she finishes it. The sisters know about each other only from their relatives’ conversations. They don’t have much in common: their father and an equally sharp sense of empathy.

But a large white bird that appears out of nowhere becomes a problem for both of them, and the sisters will have to unite.

“The story begins at the moment when the hero hears a call and can’t resist.” Love of the text begins the same way: you see the first lines, you hear them in your head, you can’t resist. I can’t resist and I follow Maria Lebedeva— I don’t know where. It doesn’t matter. Toward.

There, it’s dark.”

Olga Breininger, PhD, writer, translator, literary anthropologist