Little Caxas

Elena Chizhova is a native of St. Petersburg, the author of many books, including The Master of Things, The City Written from Memory, and The Time of Women. Most of them take place in St. Petersburg, which defines both the atmosphere of the novels and the psychology of the characters. The mid-1970s. An elite Leningrad school. Shakespearean tragedies are staged on the school stage. It seems that this world of high passions is completely different from the Soviet one, in which teachers and students live... The novel Little Caxas has been awarded two literary prizes: the Northern Palmira and the award from the magazine Zvezda.