‘A fascinating account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘Masterful and haunting’ ELENA GOROKHOVA
For Lena, childhood summers meant training to be a good socialist at Pioneer camp, singing songs in praise of Lenin. But when perestroika shatters her world, all must be unlearned. Lena’s corner of the USSR is suddenly Ukraine: there is a Mc Donalds in Moscow’s Red Square and certified foreign whisky, but no food in the shops.
For her friend Tatyana, survival in her changing homeland requires new skills: bullet dodging, business sense and a knack for bribery and corruption. When both women head West in search of new beginnings, their homesickness for a vanished land is inherited by their rebellious daughters, caught between forging their own identities and untangling the rich histories of the mothers who raised them.
About the author
Imogen Taylor is a London-born translator who lives in Berlin. Her translation of Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Beside Myself was shortlisted for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2020. More recent translations include Alfred Döblin’s Two Women and a Poisoning and Dana Grigorcea’s Dracula Park.
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