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About the product Vladimir Sorokin is an author who needs no introduction. Each of his books invariably evokes the most violent public reaction, numerous discussions in the press and social networks, controversies and scandals, and sometimes even legal proceedings (as in the case of the novels «Blue Lard» and «Ice»). At the same time, Sorokin is one of the most significant contemporary Russian writers, widely known abroad. In 2001, he was awarded the People’s Booker Prize and the Andrey Bely Prize for Special Services to Russian Literature. His books were shortlisted for the International Booker Prize twice. In 2010 he became a laureate of the international Gorky Prize and the New Literature Prize, in 2011 and 2014 he received the second Big Book Prize. The novel «Marina’s Thirty Love» was written in 1982-1984, during the reign of Andropov. Sorokin was able to publish it in Russian only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1995, Moscow, 1983. Marina Alekseeva teaches music at a recreation center at one of the Moscow factories. She never became a pianist herself — because of her little finger broken in her youth. Marina’s personal life is incredibly rich: she just broke up with her 29th partner. Waiting for your thirtieth — real! — love Marina spends time, revolving in dissident circles and criticizing the squalor of the ruling regime. Suddenly, Sergey Rumyantsev, the secretary of the factory party committee, appears in her life, and a fatal, almost Kafkaian metamorphosis occurs with Marina. Abstract The novel by Vladimir Sorokin «Marina’s Thirty Love» was first published in 1995, although it was written ten years earlier, in 1982-1984, despite the fact that the action of the novel itself takes place in 1983. The main heroine of the novel is thirty-year-old Marina Alekseeva, a typical representative of bohemia 80s, dissatisfied with the regime, a dissident, a failed pianist, teaching music in the House of Culture of one of the Moscow factories. Sorokin begins the story with a description of Marina’s past, including a description of her many love affairs. Despite the huge number of partners, both men and women, Marina is unhappy in love and unsuccessfully tries to find her place in this world. Suddenly on her horizon appears the secretary of the factory party committee Sergei Rumyantsev, an affair with whom leads to an unexpected metamorphosis and drastically changes her life …
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