Caryatids

Zoya is timid, romantic, and fragile. She is raising her daughter alone, secretly admiring Renaissance art in albums and dreaming of meeting true love. Her daughter Yasia is quite different. She is into science, does not like to show her feelings, and dreams of researching landslides. Her dream will come true, and she will leave her hometown in the Moscow region for the other side of the world, to Tasmania, but her love for her mother will strongly bind her to home - like a string holds a kite aloft.
The elegant, restrained, and lyrical novel by Alisa Khantsis tells about the threads that stretch between us across oceans and about those who are ready to carry entire worlds - their own and others' - on their shoulders.