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When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention centre. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges.
Ten listless days stretch before Anya and, as she appeals her sentence and recalls her progress from apolitical youth to informed citizen, she is troubled by strange, dreamlike visions, and wonders if her cellmates might somehow not be as ordinary as they seem.
A brilliant exploration of what it means to be marginalized both as an independent woman and in an increasingly intolerant Russia in particular, The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number Three introduces one of the most urgent and gripping new voices in international literature.
Genre: Literary Fiction
When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention centre. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges.
Ten listless days stretch before Anya and, as she appeals her sentence and recalls her progress from apolitical youth to informed citizen, she is troubled by strange, dreamlike visions, and wonders if her cellmates might somehow not be as ordinary as they seem.
A brilliant exploration of what it means to be marginalized both as an independent woman and in an increasingly intolerant Russia in particular, The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number Three introduces one of the most urgent and gripping new voices in international literature.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Centuries pass, generations change, but novels about prison and jail, freedom and captivity, are still being published in Russia. The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is as timely as Maxim Gorky's Hours Spent in Prison, but a much livelier read!" - Boris Akunin
"The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 captures the absurdity of the Russian criminal justice system, but this gripping novel is more than an indictment of corruption. In Kira Yarmysh's confident hands, Women's Cell Number 3 becomes a vivid microcosm of contemporary Russia." - Elliott Holt
"Kira Yarmysh can do more with a single detention cell than most writers can with an entire continent. In The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3, she updates and upends the traditions of the Russian prison novel, and in doing so, creates a startling panorama of contemporary Russian society. The result is required reading for anyone who wants to better understand life under Putin." - Anthony Marra
"Ten. Nine. Eight . . . The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 counts down the ten-day detention of Anya, a Russian arrested after protesting her corrupt government. With every day that passes, our hearts pound faster, as the prisoners, their jailers, and Anya's nightmares collide. Kira Yarmysh shows us the whole world through a single cell: frightening and funny, absurd and all too real." - Julia Phillips
"The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 captures the absurdity of the Russian criminal justice system, but this gripping novel is more than an indictment of corruption. In Kira Yarmysh's confident hands, Women's Cell Number 3 becomes a vivid microcosm of contemporary Russia." - Elliott Holt
"Kira Yarmysh can do more with a single detention cell than most writers can with an entire continent. In The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3, she updates and upends the traditions of the Russian prison novel, and in doing so, creates a startling panorama of contemporary Russian society. The result is required reading for anyone who wants to better understand life under Putin." - Anthony Marra
"Ten. Nine. Eight . . . The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 counts down the ten-day detention of Anya, a Russian arrested after protesting her corrupt government. With every day that passes, our hearts pound faster, as the prisoners, their jailers, and Anya's nightmares collide. Kira Yarmysh shows us the whole world through a single cell: frightening and funny, absurd and all too real." - Julia Phillips
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