Description
A dreamlike novel of love and loss in the post-communist diaspora
About the Author
Yelena Moskovich was born in the former USSR and emigrated to Wisconsin with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991. She studied theatre at Emerson College, Boston, and in France at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre and Universite Paris 8. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France, and Sweden. Her first novel The Natashas was published by Serpent's Tail in 2016. She has also written for New Statesman, Paris Review and 3:AM Magazine, and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine, won the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2017 and was a curator for the 2018 Los Angeles Queer Biennial. She lives in Paris.
Reviews
'A bold feminist novel: it contains a world of love and friendship between women in which men and boys are both indistinct and irrelevant ... The Natashas was a fascinating debut, Virtuoso is even better ... It is the Blue Velvet to her Eraserhead: a fully realized vision of a strange world.' -- Katharine Coldiron * TLS *
'Like Moskovich's powerful debut The Natashas, this is a book about the last generation to be born in the Soviet era and how the fall of communism shaped their social, sexual and artistic engagement with the world ... Moskovich's mother tongue is Ukrainian, and while her English is faultless, there's a pleasing otherness about her syntax and word choice, a sense that there are different languages operating just beneath the surface of the text. It makes for a reading experience that is always strikingly original ... Virtuoso is a fine, fraught, strange novel ... it will be fascinating to see what she writes next.' -- Alex Preston * Guardian *
Praise for The Natashas: 'A brave, original work ... written in a Cubist jumble of voices, languages, and textures, The Natashas reads as if one were spinning a radio dial of the world -- Lauren Elkin * Financial Times *
A surreal and distinctively written exploration of identity ... wonderfully original -- Kirsty Logan * Guardian *
A hallucinatory torrent of imagery and ideas that moves entirely according to its own rules -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
Closest in tone and plot to a David Lynch film ... as heady yet ephemeral as smoke -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
[A] unique read * The List *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788160254
Author Yelena Moskovich
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Serpent's Tail
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 380g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 30mm