Aloe

New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), close to the Bloomsbury group, is usually positioned in Russia exclusively as an author of short prose. However, her legacy includes the novel «Aloe», which Mansfield adapted to write one of her most famous texts — the novella «Prelude». The «original» differs significantly in style, details, and texture from the subsequent novella. It is a unique example of modernism, written on biographical material from her life in New Zealand. Three generations of women from one family, their dreams, quarrels, daily routines, children's games, and songs about imaginary youths. This is a novel about the painful tangibility of life, its musicality, and the beauty of memories. The novel «Aloe» is being translated into Russian for the first time.