Alla Gorbunova It's the End of the World My Love Paperback Book

Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunovas audacious and spectacular novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets Alla Gorbunovas heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunovas interconnected episodes dont limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material realities to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, selfdestruct, and transform. In vivid prose she conjures a fragile and haunted society, and renders it with frank and uncompromising tenderness. A stunning work of fiction, Its the End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice. | Alla Gorbunova It's the End of the World My Love Paperback Book