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Kira Yarmysh has been Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s press secretary since 2014. A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, she has several times been arrested in connection with her work for Navalny, spent a month in prison, and is now living abroad in exile. This is her debut novel. | ||
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In a large barren room furnished only with communal bunkbeds, Anya meets her cellmates: five ordinary Russian women arrested on petty charges. They come from all strata of Russian society, and as they pass the long hours waiting to be released they slowly build trust and companionship while sipping lukewarm tea from plastic cups and playing games. Above all, they talk: about politics, feminism, their families, their sexualities, and hKira Yarmyshow to make the most of prison life. Yet as the waking days stretch listlessly before Anya, she is plagued by strange nightmarish visions and begins to wonder if her cellmates might not actually be as ordinary as they seem. Will the face of everyday life ultimately crack for good? | |||
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