Aunt Motya
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Aunt Motya
6.99 €
Maya Kucherskaya's novel "Aunt Motya" is one of the most famous works of the literary 2010s. First published in 2012, it was appreciated by critics and readers, becoming a laureate and nominee of the main literary awards of Russia. After 10 years, the book returns to the reader to once again confirm that real literature only gets better and more relevant over the years.
Marina is 32 years old and works as a proofreader at a newspaper. She is married to sysadmin Kolya and is raising a son. A modest, unremarkable existence that does not promise bright impulses and passions. But suddenly she begins an affair with the star of television journalism, imposing and intelligent Mikhail Lanin - and Marina finds herself at the center of an age-old love story.
"Aunt Motya" outwardly looks like another attempt to analyze the old story: she loves him, he is married to another, she is "given to another" - but will he be faithful? Will the new Anna Karenina stand on the rails obligingly laid before her by literary tradition? Maya Kucherskaya exquisitely and wittily disposes of the chosen plot. Under the cover of a love novel several literary traditions collide at once. Melodrama, in the center of which - double adultery. Classical Russian literature with its deep analysis of feelings. Exquisite Japanese poetry and its elegant minimalism. A thorough family saga of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating letters, diaries, memoirs. Finally - confessional prose, stream of consciousness. Such a number of sources organically intertwine with each other, making up a large-scale canvas of a novel about several human lives.
Marina is 32 years old and works as a proofreader at a newspaper. She is married to sysadmin Kolya and is raising a son. A modest, unremarkable existence that does not promise bright impulses and passions. But suddenly she begins an affair with the star of television journalism, imposing and intelligent Mikhail Lanin - and Marina finds herself at the center of an age-old love story.
"Aunt Motya" outwardly looks like another attempt to analyze the old story: she loves him, he is married to another, she is "given to another" - but will he be faithful? Will the new Anna Karenina stand on the rails obligingly laid before her by literary tradition? Maya Kucherskaya exquisitely and wittily disposes of the chosen plot. Under the cover of a love novel several literary traditions collide at once. Melodrama, in the center of which - double adultery. Classical Russian literature with its deep analysis of feelings. Exquisite Japanese poetry and its elegant minimalism. A thorough family saga of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating letters, diaries, memoirs. Finally - confessional prose, stream of consciousness. Such a number of sources organically intertwine with each other, making up a large-scale canvas of a novel about several human lives.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series It's time to read women