Such a Gentle Corpse

The phantasmagorical novel by Tamara Kandala is by no means about a corpse… It is about love. The author manages to gift the reader a true miracle of art – to experience together with the characters a flash of love in the literal sense until the grave. "Love is indeed finite; it is strictly measured for each life," says the heroine of the novel. At the same time, the author succeeds in providing the background – a panorama of life in post-Soviet and post-perestroika Moscow. The real and the infernal, the satirical and the erotic naturally intertwine in this masterful book...