Quaternity: Four Novellas from the Carpathians - Paperback

by Maria Rybakova (Author)

Four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region: An American expat in Europe appropriates the identity of a Romanian orphan in her desperate search for love; a dictator's daughter learns, while on a study trip to France, that her parents have been overthrown and are about to be executed; a minor character from a novel confronts her own insignificance; a wife announces to her husband of forty years that she's just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Author Biography

Maria Rybakova has been a writer since she was twenty-four. She won several prizes for her Russian novels, including "Globus", "Eureka", "Anthologia", "The Students' Booker", "Russian Prize", and was nominated for the international Jan Michalski literary award. Maria Rybakova's novels have been translated into German, Spanish, and French. She teaches literature at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.