Vita Nostra

Sasha Samokhina’s life turns into a nightmare. She is given an offer she cannot refuse; after graduating from school, Sasha is forced to attend the strange Institute of Special Technologies, where the students resemble monsters and the teachers look like fallen angels. Here, she is taught... What? And what will happen to her after graduation?Vita Nostra has been translated into six languages14 literary awards, including the Golden ROSKON and the Bolshaya FiligranThe emotional intensity of Dyachenko’s works is off the charts, requiring such identification with the characters that it can only be compared to intense infatuation...Piterbook MagazineVita Nostra remains one of the most “readable” books in Russian—the twisted, strange, and terrifying world created in the book feels so realAnastasia Zavozova, Editor-in-Chief of StorytelA philosophical treatise on growing up and the nature of realityBooklist