The action of Tatyana Tolstaya's novel "Kys" takes place in the world after a nuclear explosion. Around mutated plants, animals and people. The former human culture is dead, only those who lived before the explosion remember it - the former.
The protagonist of the novel is Benedict, the son of the former, the woman Polina Mikhailovna. After the death of the boy's mother, another Former one, Nikita Ivanovich, takes care of him. He is trying to instill in him a culture, but all this goes to no avail.
Kitty herself is a terrible creature that from time to time appears in Benedict's imagination. It is the personification of fears of the unknown, of the dark sides of the soul...
Author: Tatyana Tolstaya
Pages: 352 (offset). Soft cover
Dimensions: 180x115x28mm
