Nver Romia Hayrapetyan was born in 1971, in Egipatrush, a village in Armenia, where he still resides. He has been drawing and painting since his early childhood. He started studying at the Yerevan State Academy of Art but did not graduate. His works have been exhibited at several personal exhibitions and many group ones. Since 2014, he has been an honorary member of the Union of Artists of Armenia.
When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.
A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
