Take Care of Your Braid, Varvarushka
«A river flows under our eaves. It’s long, almost like my braid».
«Take care of your braid, Varvarushka» — a cycle of novellas and stories set in a village by the Penga River. Snow, a huge river sleeping under the ice,...
a high sky. The storyteller, no matter what her name is — Varvarushka, Marfa, or Lyubushka — is connected to this place, even when she is physically far away.
Here, everything is experienced by the heroine for the first time — family history, her own calling, friendship, love, loss. This book is about relationships with the place that shaped you, and how those relationships are not always simple. The Russian North in Zaborceva's work has a mythological dimension, and life here is woven into the seasonal cycle. Varvarushka goes in search of her grandfather and the house spirit, Marfa plans to build a house, and the unnamed heroine of «Penga» sees her father off on his final journey.
The author combines the storytelling tradition with contemporary material, giving rise to a rhythmically precise text that simultaneously recalls the tradition of village prose and the works of Sasha Sokolov.
Author: Варвара Заборцева
Printhouse: Azbuka
Series: Azbuka. Voices
Age restrictions: 16+
Year of publication: 2025
ISBN: 9785389262355
Number of pages: 224
Size: 200х117х15 mm
Cover type: integral
Weight: 195 g
ID: 1712033
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