It's the End of the World My Love

Alla Gorbunova's novel "It's the End of the World, My Love" is a bold and spectacular exploration of adolescence, rebellion, and the horrors of underground life in 1990s Saint Petersburg. It follows the lives of various characters, including children, students, beggars, and young poets, as they experience the joys and heartbreaks of youth. The novel seamlessly moves between harsh material realities and delirious dark fantasies, depicting a fragile and haunted society with frank and uncompromising tenderness. It is a stunning work of fiction that offers a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding perspective on the human experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 308 pages
Publication date: 23 March 2023
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

In her audacious and spectacular novel, Alla Gorbunova explores a myriad of otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, and the horrors of underground life. Set in 1990s Saint Petersburg, the story revolves around a diverse cast of characters, including children, students, beggars, and young poets, who live their lives intensely, experiencing the gamut of emotions that come with adolescence. However, Gorbunova's interconnected episodes transcend the realm of everyday existence, venturing into delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform, navigating a fragile and haunted society rendered with frank and uncompromising tenderness by Gorbunova's vivid prose. This stunning work of fiction, It's the End of the World, My Love, is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding exploration of the human condition from an undeniable literary voice.

In her audacious and spectacular novel, Alla Gorbunova explores a myriad of otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, and the horrors of underground life. Set in 1990s Saint Petersburg, the story revolves around a diverse cast of characters, including children, students, beggars, and young poets, who live their lives intensely, experiencing the gamut of emotions that come with adolescence. However, Gorbunova's interconnected episodes transcend the realm of everyday existence, venturing into delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform, navigating a fragile and haunted society rendered with frank and uncompromising tenderness by Gorbunova's vivid prose. This stunning work of fiction, It's the End of the World, My Love, is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding exploration of the human condition from an undeniable literary voice.

Weight: 418g
Dimension: 141 x 217 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781646052103