Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of
underground life crossed with mythical fairytales, all swirl in Alla
Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel.
Children, students,
beggars, young poets; Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their
lives intensively, balancing between longing and euphoria in their
lives in St. Petersburg.
But Gorbunova's
stories are far from everyday life: she looks at a fragile and
dangerous reality with uncompromising tenderness, above all capable
of transforming her characters.
