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Kira Yarmysh has been Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's press secretary since 2014. In connection with her work for Navalny she has been arrested several times and spent fifty days in prison, and is currently living abroad in exile. This is her debut novel. Arch Tait has translated over forty books from the leading Russian writers of today and won the inaugural PEN Literature in Translation Prize in 2010, as well as the English PEN Award in 2016.An intimate look at political imprisonment
- Dwight Garner, the New York Times
Superb. I am happy that my past is being recognized: I myself sat in the cell next door (albeit at a different time), and I can confirm that all the characters are very realistic
- Alexey Navalny,
As timely as Maxim Gorky's Hours Spent in Prison, but a much livelier read!
- Boris Akunin,
Brilliantly camouflaged by the grubby banality of casual conversation and detention routines, Ms. Yarmysh creates a cumulative portrait of ingrained social evils and violent retribution ... As unpredictable as it is damning.
- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Yarmysh's debut is gripping. In using her own experiences she reveals not only the intolerance of the Russian state, but also the resilience of those subjected to its injustices
- Christiana Bishop, New Statesman
The whole world through a single cell: frightening and funny, absurd and all too real
- Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth,
Catch-22 exchanges on the impossibility of fairness for women in Russian society ... the dialogue-heavy narrative keeps the pages turning.
- John Self, Guardian
A first novel that skillfully breaks the claustrophobia of life in a jail cell by cataloging Anya's life before her imprisonment . . . The familiar trials and tribulations that everyday Russians face stand out in dramatic effect as Yarmysh illuminates the subtly veiled political dissent within an oppressive society straining at the seams.
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