Eve of the Last Saturday

A collection of stories and tales from various years by Ukrainian and Israeli Russian-speaking writer, poet, and artist Karine Arutyunova – author of the books Angel Hofman and others, Ashes of the Red Cow, Say Red, Daughters of Eve, Color of Pomegranate, Taste of Lemon, A Bird Falls, Snow Flies, and other collections of short prose; laureate of literary awards Andrei Bely 2010, Mark Aldanov 2021, Vladimir Korolenko 2017, Ernest Hemingway 2020. Arutyunova possesses that rare and therefore doubly valuable quality characteristic primarily of true artists, which Mandelstam called "predatory eye measure." Viktor Toporov Karine Arutyunova – is a voice from new Russian literature, not post-Soviet and not Russian. A Jew by her mother and an Armenian by her father, raised in Kyiv and having lived many years in Israel, she has a vision that penetrates ethnic, political, and geographical barriers. Mikhail Krutikov Arutyunova has a universal perception of the world: to create such voluminous pictures, one must be an artist; to write rhythmic prose – perhaps such texts suit her best – one must have a keen ear; and furthermore, the author can convey tactile sensations in writing like few other contemporary Russian prose writers. Elena Georgievskaya Karine Arutyunova writes music with words and throughout her prose does not hit a single false note. Vladimir Gandelman