Apoptosis

A young French teacher faces death for the first time at her grandmother’s funeral, after which constant fear of death completely takes over her life. The fear turns into a desire to take revenge on the world and on God for her mortality—and that desire leads to action: obsessive and unstoppable. “Apoptosis” is Natasha Grin’s debut novel. An experimental text that thoroughly explores the age-old questions of life and death.

About the author: a philologist, teacher, translator from French, editor. Born and raised in the closed city of Ozyorsk in Chelyabinsk Oblast. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the HSE University. Now lives in Moscow and Paris.