Steppe: Roman. Vasyakina O.

Ten years after the divorce of the parents, the daughter meets the father-colos and travels with him in central Russia and the southern regions. “Steppe” is the novel by Oksana Vasyakina, which makes up the dilogy along with the debut “wound”: the first book is about saying her daughter with the deceased mother; The second is about relations with the father. Returning with thoughts to the cabin of a truck rushing through the steppe, the heroine reflects on men whose youth fell on the 1980-1990s; about the diseases from which many of them die silently; About how time the father was exhausted, leaving in the cold wind of the future; About Russia, not knowing what to do with its own history.

Oksana Vasyakina - writer, laureate of prizes “Lyceum” (2019) and “Nose” (2021).