He can then return to the shallow life he led before her.īut as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him - and this world. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother.Ĭonfused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. Dyachenko was best known for co-authoring over 30 titles with his wife, Marina Dyachenko (née Shirshova), notably Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner Vita Nostra (2007), translated into English in 2018.

Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Vita Nostra es una novela de Marina y Sergey Dyachenko publicada por primera vez en 2007 en Ucrania. Russian-Ukrainian SF writer Sergey Dyachenko, 77, died in California. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona.Īfter he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment.īut in the morning sinister doubts set in. Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, a former actress and a former psychiatrist, are the co-authors of Vita Nostra and twenty-eight other novels and numerous short. Their books have been translated into several foreign languages and awarded multiple literary and film prizes. They were born in Ukraine, lived in Russia, and now live in the United States. In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. MARINA & SERGEY DYACHENKO, a former actress and a former psychiatrist, are co-authors of thirty novels and numerous short stories and screenplays.

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