Maya Kucher ska “Tia Moti a” is a psychological family novel about a relationship crisis. Winner of the readers’ vote of the “Big Book” prize. Marina, known to her loved ones also by her home nickname “Moti a,” is thirty-two. She works as a proofreader at a weekly newspaper. For six years, Marina has been married to Koly a, a man from a simple family, and they have a five-year-old son, Artem. But marriage weighs on Marina; mutual understanding with her husband has long been lost, and family life continues only by inertia. Then meeting a fifty-year-old journalist changes the lives of all the heroes of this story.
Maya Kuch erskaya is a prose writer, philologist, professor at the Higher School of Economics, and laureate of several literary awards. Author of books “A Modern Paterik. Reading for Those Who Have Fallen into Despair,” “Lament for the Teacher of Drawing Who Left,” novels “God of Rain,” “Tia Moti a,” and a biography of Nikolai Leskov “Leskov: A Genius Missed.”