Anna Matveeva

“The Dyatlov Pass could signal the start of a new literature just as In Cold Blood by Truman Capote once was for American prose... What I value in Matveeva’s novel is.... that she displays affection for the nine victims, lives with them and thus forces me to see one of them in the youngster sitting next to me in the cafe or in the underground... What I like most about reading this book, however, is the feeling of living through someone else’s tragedy because it is built into and woven into our own lives.”
DMITRI BYKOV

 

“Force and brutality are very finely nuanced here against the "feminine", "contemporary" part of the novel that forms the "vessel" containing the opposites "brutal - tender", "male - female", "past - present"... a remarkable book!”
ALEKSEI IVANOV