What Cassandra Saw
5 hrs. 15 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Gwen Kirby
Author
Gwen Kirby
Narrator
Elena Novikova
Narrator
Elena Novikova
Description
Fans of contemporary prose are offered one of the boldest short collections by Gwen Kirby. In her debut collection of stories, Kirby writes about women who often teeter on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Each story here brings surprises: an instruction on how to lay bathroom tiles turns into a high tragedy, a review of a restaurant becomes a reflection on a not-so-successful marriage, and one of the most touching stories unfolds around a stuffed kangaroo forgotten in a suitcase. Kirby’s very daring, funny, and invariably human texts revolve around women, but her heroines’ experience is universal: faced with an imperfect—and sometimes simply hostile—world, they are ready to stand against it with all the fury and love they are capable of.
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