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Past and present are intertwined in this touching, tender, rebellious story, creating a colorful, incredibly sincere portrait of a girl defending the right to mix French with Russian, to carry her own name, and not to answer the question of which country you love more. Polina is just a young girl when her family emigrates to France in the 1990s. She has to get used to new living conditions, learn a new language and local traditions. Every summer the family returns to Russia, where their favorite grandparents, dacha beds and the eternal question of when they will finally return to their homeland are waiting for them. As time goes by, Polina is increasingly torn between two languages, two countries, two cultures. That's why it is important to her that in French documents it should be written not Pauline, but Pauline. So begins a long journey of bureaucratic litigation with the state... A poignant novel-autofiction that explores the experience of emigration and attempts to preserve one's own self.
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