Kalechina-Malechina

Evgenia Nekrasova is a writer, one of the founders of the School of Literary Practices, and a laureate of the Lice and Strannik/NOS prizes. Her novella Unhappy Moscow, the novel Kalechina-Malechina, and the story Kumutkan have been staged in Russian theaters. A girl named Katya lives with her parents on the eleventh floor of a regular panel building in a small town. The world around Katya doesn't need her: the ungrown tease her, and the grown ones have neither strength nor time for her. And Katya finds a way out for herself. But then Kikimora, who lives behind the stove in the kitchen, intervenes. Together they embark on a dangerous journey and unwittingly surpass in cruelty those who have maimed them. The novel Kalechina-Malechina has been translated into Italian and Latvian and has made it to the shortlists of the NOS, National Bestseller, and Big Book awards.