South Russian Ovcharovo

Lora Beloivan is an artist, journalist, and writer; a finalist of the NOS literary prize and the Dovlatov prize.

South Russian Ovcharovo is a strange place and located—well, God knows where. If you go north from Vladivostok and ignore road signs and markings, you end up in a village where the trees are jealous, the dead work, the huts are heated with darkness, and there’s no one to leave the owl with. Will it really be like that? Of course. It only seems that not everyone can wake up among wonders. In fact, everyone does—day by day.