Widow

Anna Chukhlebova is a prose writer, author of the book "A Easy Way to Quit Satanism", finalist of the "Lyceum" award and laureate of the Moscow Art Prize. She lives in Rostov-on-Don. The new novel "Widow" is a "chronicle of... one death, announced in advance". And - a chronicle of one love that turned out to be longer than life. What is it like to love someone who will soon die? To love passionately, intensely, to the breaking point - and to live in constant fear and anticipation of the end. What is it like to love after death? To live in utter darkness, when there is no one around except yourself, and you cannot bear yourself. This is a confessional text about a very strange, whimsical love - and about such an ordinary, everyday death; about how a giant meteorite crashes into the vortex of large meteorites (hello, 2020; hello, 2022): personal.