My White
by Ksenia Burzhskaya
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A sensational and highly anticipated novel by Ksenia Burzhskaya, a Russian renowned journalist, writer, and co-host of the YouTube channel White Noise, together with the famous Russian writer, Tatyana Tolstaya. Ksenia is also a speechwriter for Alisa (a voice assistant and Yandex’s alternative to Alexa) and the winner of the literary competition My First Pain (2008) organized by another great Russian author, Ludmila Ulitskaya.
My White is set in the modern day. Throughout the book, the main character, sixteen-year-old girl Jane (Zhenya) is preparing for a New Year school performance. Zhenya was brought up by her two moms, artist Alexandra and doctor Vera. But despite that, she faces the same problems every other teenager does: she studies, meets up with friends, falls for a boy, and tries her best to get over an unrequited love and her parents’ divorce.
Zhenya’s ultimate goal and destination in the novel, the concert, has two purposes: to gather her mothers and hopefully make them change their mind about the divorce, and to give her a chance to confess to Lyonya, head of their music club and the guy she is secretly in love with.
The novel has two central story lines. The first is a constant rehearsal, anticipation and premonition, that may be more important than the event itself. The second is memories, regrets, attempts to find your own way and answer the eternal questions: what is love? can it last forever? why do we love at all?
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“My White is not only a great love story, it’s also a priceless one. It is the first Russian novel ever about two women who loved each other but broke up. About their daughter who compares her feelings for a boy with those between her mothers. And about the timeless value of love, no matter how unconventional. In her debut novel, Kseniya is depicting her characters’ feelings with the ease of a modern writer, who doesn’t have to bother herself with what the society considers to be normal or acceptable”. Konstantin Kropotkin, Gorky Media
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"The author doesn't really like when My White is labeled LGBT-literature ("let people read a book because it is a good book, but not because it is a queer one" - Ksenia Burzhskaya), but the fact is: love relationships between two women is the center of this nice book pioneering Russian literature with a story of conceiving in same-sex couple.
Men play a complementary role in My White, which resembles us about the foremost feature of women prose as such: written by women about women for women, and only by an occasional chance the frame is open for the rest - white snow for example, a kind of obsession for the young protagonist.
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- Publisher Eksmo
- Orginal LanguageRussian
- Pages255
- Publish StatusPublished
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