Candles of the Apocalypse

«Candles of the Apocalypse» — a new book by Tatyana Zamirovskaya, a writer and journalist, author of the novel «Death.net», collections «The Land of Random Numbers», «Sparrow River» and «Life without Noise and Pain». The writer from Belarus lives in New York and sells the most expensive candles in the world in a luxury boutique. The text is about how she can't help anyone, and no one can help anyone. «Candles of the Apocalypse» reads like a painfully candid survival guide in a foreign country, like a textbook of tolerance and friendly curiosity, like a gripping production drama, like a witty and accurate book of types, lifestyle, and morals. If someone had told me that I would read this book, laughing until I die and then freezing in empathy and recognition, I wouldn't have believed it. And yet. Galina Yuzefovich The charge of love and light that overcomes everything in this text is sharply necessary, especially against the backdrop of a «rapidly changing world». One can maintain a spirit of presence, one can fall in spirit, one can catch a cold in a global draft — but there is always something funny around us, and within us, something joyful. Maxim Mamlyga