What Color is Pain?

"What Color is Pain?" - a collection of essays by the famous journalist and writer Natalia Sukhinina.

They say that prison is a "earthquake of the soul," and it is all the more tragic and frightening when a woman finds herself in the epicenter of this earthquake. The main heroines of Natalia Sukhinina's new book are ordinary women, our contemporaries, who have ended up in prison. Each of them, regardless of age, is already here, on earth, bearing an unavoidable punishment for sin, for a crime against God's commandments. 

Many, who also sin "over trifles," manage to avoid this visible legal punishment, preserving their decent reputation in the eyes of society. 

And indeed, folk wisdom says: "from prison and from a mad house, do not renounce." These women do not need our sympathy, but only understanding, because, in addition to human judgment, another Judgment has been pronounced over them - God's Judgment. Through soul-wrenching suffering, through pain and tears, each of them has found her way to faith, to God. 
There are no fictional characters or invented events in the book, although the names of the heroines have been changed.

Their bitter and instructive experience may make someone pause at the fatal line. 
The book is written in such a lively and vivid language that hardly any of the readers will remain indifferent to the fates of its heroines.