The Time of Swans
Debut novel by Larissa Muraveva
Debut novel by Larissa Muraveva
ORIGINAL TITLE: Написано в Западном Берлине
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Shell(f), 2025
240 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: German (Aufbau)
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Shell(f), 2025
240 PAGES
RIGHTS SOLD: German (Aufbau)
ENGLISH SAMPLE AVAILABLE
“Gradually, I realized I was suffering from a kind of Proustian syndrome, and that only writing could cure it. Yet every time I tried to write about my past, it folded in on itself, dissolved like smoke, melted away before my eyes. My thoughts kept running into a dead end: I could no longer remember what exactly I had been doing on Bolshoi Prospekt when I saw that lilac tree, or what year I had stepped into the Church of St. Eustathius, and I could not understand what was worth telling about that trip to Rishon LeZion, one of many, entirely unremarkable.”