July 35; But this is not certain – Fedorova Anna – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-3029-1
July 35; But this is not certain
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July 35; But this is not certain
14.99 €
"My childhood is stuck in the nineties and just won't end. I lived in the nineties until I was eleven, and after eleven and until I was twenty-two—the aughts. Why doesn't time after eleven have any meaning for me?"
The heroine of Anya Fedorova's texts is a teenage girl who likes watching TV and dislikes school. She lives in a city on the Volga River near a meat-packing plant. She has an ordinary family: her father, a police officer, loves to play mean jokes on his daughter and take artistic photographs; her mother, a nurse and security guard; a beloved grandmother, the head of the family; a great-grandmother, with whom she's at odds; and a younger brother. It's the late 1990s and early 2000s: the second round of elections, Tamagotchis and Yupis, trips to kindergarten, and Saturday nights spent drinking Casanova cocktails among adults. A grand drama—parents' divorce, poverty, and social catastrophe—serves as the backdrop for Anya's childhood adventures, told in a lively and direct language. The book's stories, "July 35th" and "It's Not Certain," are simultaneously funny and painful prose, forcing you to join the heroine in confronting the sad, absurd, and loving experience of growing up on the post-Soviet outskirts.
The heroine of Anya Fedorova's texts is a teenage girl who likes watching TV and dislikes school. She lives in a city on the Volga River near a meat-packing plant. She has an ordinary family: her father, a police officer, loves to play mean jokes on his daughter and take artistic photographs; her mother, a nurse and security guard; a beloved grandmother, the head of the family; a great-grandmother, with whom she's at odds; and a younger brother. It's the late 1990s and early 2000s: the second round of elections, Tamagotchis and Yupis, trips to kindergarten, and Saturday nights spent drinking Casanova cocktails among adults. A grand drama—parents' divorce, poverty, and social catastrophe—serves as the backdrop for Anya's childhood adventures, told in a lively and direct language. The book's stories, "July 35th" and "It's Not Certain," are simultaneously funny and painful prose, forcing you to join the heroine in confronting the sad, absurd, and loving experience of growing up on the post-Soviet outskirts.
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