An enviable sense of faith stenina. Matveeva A.

Anna Matveeva is the author of the novels "Dyatlova Pass, or the Secret of Nine", "There is!" And “every hundred years”, the collections of the stories “Lolotta and other Parisian stories”, “Hidden Rivers”, “Katya goes to Sochi”, as well as the books “Citizens” and “Picture Girls”.

The novel “The Environment of Faith Stenina” tells the story of female friendship-return. Faith, art critic, single mother, constantly envies Yulka to his friend. Julia is always lucky, and she doesn’t envy anyone, but could-the same faith, because she has a unique gift-in a special way to feel painting: she talks with portraits, feels the aroma of painted flowers and hears the music that the artists depicted in the paintings play...

The novel is verbose: the anatomy of envy, the combination of the Western European tradition with Russian mentality, a slight detective accent and - in full voice - the hymn of art and beauty.

“The story of female friendship, bordering on sharp With envy (if not hatred), filled with an elegant game of words, and at the same time can serve as an excellent manual on the history of arts: building the image of his heroine, Matveyev shows how to look at the masterpieces of painting correctly, the image turns into a set of sound, color and tactile metaphors. ” (Konstantin Milchin, literary critic, chief editor Storytel)