Babiy Veter

The center of the narrative of this, at times shocking, sharp and painful book is – a Woman. The heroine, in her youth – a parachutist and a hot air balloon pilot, after experiencing personal tragedy, is forced to engage... in a completely different occupation in another country, one might say, in a mirrored world: she is a cosmetologist, living and working in New York. A whole parade of strange characters passes before her eyes, for, by the nature of her current profession, the heroine encounters fantastical, almost mundane "gender transformations" of our time, with disheartening, and even repulsive images of societal life. And, oddly enough, from this garland, in the heroine's expression, of "cripples" grows a grotesque, tragic, insignificant and lofty image of modern love. "This story, in which there is not a single vulgar word, should be published with a rating of 18+, or rather 40+… – for everything in it is so exposed and defenseless, cynical and piercingly intimate, that in many scenes the color of shame floods the face and splashes in the heart, – the bewildered human heart, which through all times bravely and stubbornly dreams of but one thing: love…" Dina Rubina