Armastan. I love you too

Anna Matveeva is the author of the novels «Every Hundred Years», «Dyatlov Pass, or the Secret of the Nine», «The Envious Feelings of Vera Stenina» and «Eat!», collections of short stories «Katya is Going to Sochi», «Hidden Rivers», «Lolotta and Other Parisian Stories», as well as the books «Town Dwellers» and «Picture Girls». Finalist of the «Big Book» and «Yasnaya Polyana» awards.

In the new collection of stories and novellas «Armastan», all texts are linked in one way or another to visuals — it’s about paintings, photographs, posters, drawings, in general, everything that Gertrude Stein called «images on a flat surface». Artists, museums, creative suffering, and also — agonizing searches for housing, love nonsense, and nostalgia. Everything we love. And «ármaстан» in Estonian means — «I love».