About the Author:
Shmuel Mushnick
Jerusalem, Israel
Shmuel Mushnick was born in Moscow in 1955, emigrated to Israel in 1970. He started painting when he was four, and he never stopped.
Shmuel Mushnik’s art is a painterly vision of Jerusalem streets. (And not only Jerusalem streets.)
Shmuel Mushnick was born in Moscow in 1955, emigrated to Israel in 1970. He started painting when he was four, and he never stopped.
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