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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. More about this book >
Poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist Maria Stepanova is the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She was awarded the Berman Literature Prize for In Memory of Memory, and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. She also founded the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru, which engages with the cultural, social, and political reality of contemporary Russia. As a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, she had to leave Russia and is now living in exile.
(Photo credit: Andrey Natotsinsky)
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