Nine of the Nineties

Anna Matveeva is the author of the novels The Dyatlov Pass, or The Secret of the Nine, The Enviable Feeling of Vera Stenina, Every Hundred Years, the short story collections Hidden Rivers, Lollotta and Other Parisian Stories, Katya Goes to Sochi, as well as the books Citizens and Picture Girls. Finalist for the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards. The heroes of this book were caught off guard by the nineties: difficult, aimless, harsh. But for many, they became a magical time when the impossible became reality, when dreams came true, and what was unimaginable turned into life. Here, a rich secret adoptive parent finds an orphan, a young man goes to Zurich instead of the army, fate still sends a child to a woman doomed to childlessness, and Yekaterinburg can easily turn into Paris…