Synopses & Reviews
"Babiashkina has a deft comic touch and a sure ability to spoof genre fiction. Here is the story of a strong-willed pensioner who plans to write the Great Russian Novel of her generation in a residential care home, only to discover more than she bargained for."Muireann Maguire, translator
Winner of the Debut Prize and Bestseller Prize, Anna Babiashkina raises such universal women's issues as aging, family relationships, generation gaps, recapturing one's youth, and making something out of one's life in one's last active years.
Synopsis
A woman looking back on her life in 2039 skewers her generation with witty commentary and deft perception.
About the Author
Anna Babiashkina, born in 1979 in a small town in Central Russia, has a degree in Journalism from Moscow University. Currently she lives in Moscow and works as chief editor of a women's magazine "The Farmer Woman" with a circulation of 180,000. She has several published novels to her name which will all be reprinted in 2013 by the largest Russian publishing Exmo as a featured series.
In 2011 her semi-fantasy novel Before I Croak won the Debut Prize and previously it has also won the Bestseller Prize as the best "urban novel".