Petrovski Syndrome

Dina Rubina has achieved the impossible - she has combined three different genres: an engaging almost gothic novel about dolls and doll-makers, merging the poles of history and art; a family detective story, and a psychological drama traced from vivid childhood and adolescent memories to gray hair. Passions here also tear the heroes apart. A person and a doll, a doll-maker and a rebelling doll, a person as a doll - in the hands of fate, in the hands of the Creator, under the influence of family heredity - this profound and multidimensional metaphor is turned by the author with many different facets, without resorting to straightforward analogies. The mastery of literary painting by Rubina, both landscape and portrait, as always, is at its peak: it’s as if you are savoring fragrant delicious air in chunks and suffocating from pleasure.