Evgeniya Nekrasova is a writer and co-founder of the School of Literary Practices. Her book "Zolotinka: Stories and Poems About Women, Bears, and Magical Creatures" features new texts written in Nekrasova’s signature style: a melodic, image-rich language paired with a unique ability to address pressing, contemporary issues through a mesmerizing, timeless tone. Nekrasova’s myth-making is an original application of folklore to the sharp, cutting edges of modernity—dark fairy tales suggesting that the gloom of grim times can only be lightened by one’s own inner glow. Evgeniya Nekrasova’s voice is unmistakable: she weaves the folkloric into the mundane, and this handcrafted pattern spreads rhythmically and seamlessly across the homespun fabric of Central Russian life. Her heroines are the Wife of Man, the Mother of Man, the Daughter of Man, and how many other roles can one perform when the Russian language offers no viable feminine equivalent for the word "human"? This woman of many faces, lives, and essences has, since childhood, divided events into logical and illogical, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly; she thinks with her heart and suffers with her mind. By birthright, almost every heroine is programmed by default to obey, pity, endure, remain silent, care for others, and "bake children like bread in an oven." Yet, every one of them has the power to learn to decide for herself and choose her own destiny.
Author: Evgeniya Nekrasova
Pages: 288 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 134x209 mm
