The Two Hundred and Third Day of Winter

The main character of Olga Ptitseva's new dystopian novel lives in a country where eternal winter has been declared. Snow has been falling for two hundred days, food is issued by ration cards, and dissenters are sent to the freezer. Nyuta cannot leave, as her biological education is now needed by the Party of Cold: it is urgent to develop selective varieties of frost-resistant plants. Meanwhile, strange events are happening in the city. Yellow daffodils bloom in the midst of snowdrifts. Local authorities are convinced that the opposition is to blame; it is they who want to destabilize the situation.