Olga Gromova

„«Sugar Child» is the documentary fact of a miracle – the education of a human personality under inhuman conditions. At the same time it is a guide through the vanished camp world, which enables us to see in detail both the anthropology of the state crime and the hidden secret of the emerging resistance.“
SERGEI LEBEDEV

„This true story full of light about Stalinist oppression, seen through the eyes of a child sent into exile in Central Asia in the 1930s, makes a significant contribution to the fragile memory of contemporary Russia, where exploration of the period is increasingly marginalized.“
LE MONDE

„The experience of our long history shows that even under the most tragic circumstances, parents have succeeded in raising morally upright children. To convince us of this, a literature helps that does not report on politicians and commanders, but on the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people in their everyday lives.“
EVGENI YAMBURG

„Actually, this is a fairy tail. A kind of miracle dance, if you will. The last of the miracles in this chain is perhaps the meeting of the already old Stella Nudolskaya with the writer Olga Gromova, who told us this amazing story.“
LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA