DAY EQUALS NIGHT

by Valeria Narbikova ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 18, 1998

A barrage of digressions and references to her country's classic authors (mainly Pushkin, but also Tolstoy, Bely, Tsvetaeva, et al.) add minimal--and much-needed--color and life to this otherwise wan tale of adultery and boredom among Moscow's contemporary Bohemians. Neurasthenic Sana leaves her phlegmatic husband Avvakum for a fling with slinky Armenian poet Otmafeian; gets pregnant; returns to the indifferent Avvakum. That's about it, in a first novel whose supposedly scandalous opening scene is so swaddled in crisscrossing literary allusions that it's impossible to be sure who's doing what, and with what, to whom.

Pub Date: Dec. 18, 1998

ISBN: 0875011179

Page Count: 195

Publisher: Ardis

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1998

Categories: FICTION