Dead lovers, family and friends haunt these short stories – the author’s first collection to appear in English in 25 years
here has always been a visionary quality to Tatyana Tolstaya’s fiction. Within the first few pages of, the narrator – who may or may not be Tolstaya – confesses that she began to write only after eye surgery in 1983. For three months after the operation, she had to live by touch: the incisions took that long to heal. Blind to the world outside, “in my mind’s eye I began to see bright visions from my past.
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