Ekaterina Manoylo «The wind carries away dead leaves»M.: "Alpina. Prose", 2024

The second novel by Ekaterina Manoylo, who burst onto the literary scene with a poignant tale of overcoming trauma and finding/losing a father, also deals, to some extent, with a "domestic" theme—domestic violence. This short, action-packed book will keep the reader both on edge and on the edge of her seat: Manoylo is equally adept at telling stories and reading the news. It has all the essentials: sisters forced to defend themselves from a despot, fleeing home and themselves, stalking, a montage of sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous scenes with a few sharp edges, and the inevitable subversion of the reader's expectations. 

"And even though the dream came true, with her father dead, there was no sense of liberation. This wasn't how she'd imagined this escape when she'd been following the Khachaturyan case. The sisters became Izya's idols..."