Summary:
Having spent years in a coma, a female protagonist is anxious to lead a normal life. Her miraculous recovery is riddled with falling in and out of our time continuum - she wanders through history in her imagination as if it were her backyard. Notwithstanding her condition, her peers are going through a real change of their own echoing events that engulfed Russia in the past few decades. In Multiple Personalities, life is a masquerade and its participants are characters from classic world literature racing towards destination unknown. The question they all are asking is whether the traditional notion of time's flow from the past to the future is the correct one. Who has the answer?
About the Author:
Author Tatyana Shcherbina is known in Russia for her poetry and prose, as well as numerous essays and translations from French. Her early works had been self-published in the USSR to avoid censorship, and it was only in the new Russia that she gained public recognition. She received various literary awards and is considered one of Russia's most celebrated female writers.
Reviews:
"Slightly dreamy, and certainly convoluted, Multiple Personalities is an intriguing take on modern Russia and the individual in it, with several inspired episodes (including both the opening and the final two chapters)." - M.A.Orthofer, the complete review
Review copies are available upon request.
Title: Multiple Personalities
Author: Tatyana Shcherbina
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 9781784379346
Extent: 165 pages
Format: paperback, hardback, e-book
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