Age of Consent

The atmospheric story of "Lolita" from Petersburg in the 2000s will appeal to fans of the books "My Dark Vanessa", "The Paradise Garden of First Love", "The Season of Poisoned Fruits". Ksyusha runs into one of the yellow-eyed panel houses on the outskirts of Petersburg. There she lives with her mother - seemingly loving and kind, but sometimes falling into the abyss of alcoholism. Ksyusha goes to school, tries to make friends, but not with the right ones. Who is she? Our neighbor? An acquaintance? A friend? One day, Yuriy appears in her life, he is married and several decades older than her. Ksyusha quickly gets sucked into the murky swamp of fears and dependencies. Will these feelings turn into true love, or will they remain an attempt to fill the gaping hole left by her father with Yuriy's figure? "The continuous dichotomy between childhood and sexuality creates a piercing sense that the girl is gradually being entirely displaced by the woman. This is at once a very frightening and tender book about a non-canonical coming of age in the era of the 2000s." - Lyuba Makarevskaya, writer