Description
Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel.
Serialization outreach targeting Granta, Paris Review, Astra Magazine, BOMB, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Cincinnati Review, Joyland National review and feature outreach to print publications (NYTBR, New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe) and online (NPR, Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, The Millions) Targeted outreach to fans and champions of translated literature: World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Calvert Journal Targeted outreach to Russian-American writers and critics Virtual events featuring author and translator Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher's e-newsletter to booksellers, reviewers, librarians
About the Author
Alla Gorbunova has published five books of poetry and received the Andrei Bely Prize for her 2019 collection Inside Starfall. Her first collection of short prose, Ings & Oughts, was published in 2017 by the Saint Petersburg publishing house Limbus Press. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages. Elina Alter is a writer and translator living in New York. She is an oral history fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.
Reviews
"Stunningly diverse and at the same time impeccably holistic, nakedly sincere and bizarrely inventive, naive and wise, frightening and comfortable - Alla Gorbunova's book seems to deliberately elude any unambiguous epithets, or rather, contains them all, while remaining something immeasurable large and simply different. And it is precisely this fundamental indeterminacy, this exciting ambiguity that definitely allows us to call It's the End of the World, My Love one of the main - if not the main - book of this year." -Galina Yuzefovich, Meduza "It can be assumed that this is a book about the author's childhood and adolescence in the 1990s. Or maybe it's a fictional childhood, or any human, it doesn't matter. One way or another - this is a book of amazing power, frank and somewhere even cruel, full of the most crystal tenderness. Teenage neuroses and everyday post-Soviet absurdity merge here with ancient fairy-tale archetypes and dark forest witchcraft - in order to reach the final to the dazzling light of the eternal child's Motherland, where all is love and joy, and everything is always for the first time. " -Yuri Saprykin
Book Information
ISBN 9781646052103
Author Alla Gorbunova
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova's interconnected episodes don't limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material realities to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, 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, It's the End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice.
Serialization outreach targeting Granta, Paris Review, Astra Magazine, BOMB, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Cincinnati Review, Joyland National review and feature outreach to print publications (NYTBR, New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe) and online (NPR, Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, The Millions) Targeted outreach to fans and champions of translated literature: World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Calvert Journal Targeted outreach to Russian-American writers and critics Virtual events featuring author and translator Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher's e-newsletter to booksellers, reviewers, librarians
About the Author
Alla Gorbunova has published five books of poetry and received the Andrei Bely Prize for her 2019 collection Inside Starfall. Her first collection of short prose, Ings & Oughts, was published in 2017 by the Saint Petersburg publishing house Limbus Press. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages. Elina Alter is a writer and translator living in New York. She is an oral history fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.
Reviews
"Stunningly diverse and at the same time impeccably holistic, nakedly sincere and bizarrely inventive, naive and wise, frightening and comfortable - Alla Gorbunova's book seems to deliberately elude any unambiguous epithets, or rather, contains them all, while remaining something immeasurable large and simply different. And it is precisely this fundamental indeterminacy, this exciting ambiguity that definitely allows us to call It's the End of the World, My Love one of the main - if not the main - book of this year." -Galina Yuzefovich, Meduza "It can be assumed that this is a book about the author's childhood and adolescence in the 1990s. Or maybe it's a fictional childhood, or any human, it doesn't matter. One way or another - this is a book of amazing power, frank and somewhere even cruel, full of the most crystal tenderness. Teenage neuroses and everyday post-Soviet absurdity merge here with ancient fairy-tale archetypes and dark forest witchcraft - in order to reach the final to the dazzling light of the eternal child's Motherland, where all is love and joy, and everything is always for the first time. " -Yuri Saprykin
Book Information
ISBN 9781646052103
Author Alla Gorbunova
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
