Nastya's Tears
by J
About This Novel
Women do not have a country, but they are always fighting. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, the economic collapse of Ukraine... History repeats itself again and again, who can stay completely aloof? One day in 1993, Natasha played a Russian record at home, and the cleaning lady Nastya next to her suddenly burst into tears. Only then did she realize that Nastya was the first Ukrainian to interact with her after her mother died. She was not only highly educated in Kiev, but also a civil engineer... How did she transform from a senior engineer in Ukraine to a cleaning lady in Berlin? Why go to Germany without a passport? How did he break up with his college sweetheart and marry a building manager in Germany? "Nastya's Tears" continues the vein of the first two parts of the "Mariupol Trilogy", focusing on a Ukrainian woman who came to Germany, connecting the experiences of countless Eastern Europeans before and after the 1990s, telling the story of the gap between two completely different worlds and the turning of the times, the fragmentation of a person and the dispersion of a generation. It is a rare work that focuses on individual experiences after the collapse of the Soviet Union. From a civil engineer to a cleaner, it writes about the fall of high-level intellectuals under the drastic changes of the times, and is a shocking portrayal of the plight of contemporary Ukraine. A contemporary Eastern European version of The Odyssey. The final chapter of the Mariupol Trilogy, the last piece of the Eastern European private history puzzle is finally complete!
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