Season of poisoned fruits. Bogdanova V.O.

“The Season of Poisoned Fruits” is the new novel by Vera Bogdanova, writer, translator, literary observer, author of the book “Pavel Zhang and other river creatures” (short list of the National Bestseller Prize).

s. In the early years, his wife was told that she should be good: to learn from the translator, get married, give birth to children. Now she is thirty, neither her husband, nor children - only problems with alcohol and an irresistible craving for a cousin.

Dasha, like her mother, does not know how to choose men. She is looking for similar to her father, drinking kitchen boxers, and marries one of them.

Ilya is afraid not to be a real man. It is better to make money, to love the family - more, but only the meaning has disappeared and life has turned on the day of the groundhog.

“The season of poisoned fruits” - about the generation of modern thirty -year -olds who grew up in the chaos of the nineties and zero attacks. The heroes of the novel are afraid to live their lives, and is it possible to find happiness when the world around explodes and burns?

Is it like “hell” Nabokov, abandoned in pain and hton of the nineties and early zero - grandmother's dacha, family saga , other people's yards, native blood; Now all this is no longer exotic and not black, we have survived, grew up and talk about how it is to be a strange girl at a strange time. Gently and carefully unwinding, like bloodied bandages, injuries and fate of the characters, Bogdanov does not force them to suffer to entertain the hypothetical reader - on the contrary, he is looking for ways to save everyone. And finds - even for those who cannot be saved.

Tatyana Zamirovskaya.

“The season of poisoned fruits” is a novel about cruelty and silence. The heroines of Vera Bogdanova live in a world where violence is a norm, and freedom is impossible. The present turned out to be captured by the past that you can’t talk about.

Olga Breininger.

The first thing you want to do after reading this book was to declare it a generation with a novel. Nineties, zero, poverty and consumption, Soviet and post -Soviet patriarchalism and domestic violence, news about terror and rising nationalism as a background, suppressed sexuality and exemption from prohibitions - and all these contexts with a well -registered plot.

Maxim Mamlyga.