Publishing this story on Punctured Lines is one of the top highlights of my career as an editor so far. This publication was many years in the making. Many of my friends know Malachowskaja’s name well: she is legendary in the Soviet feminist community as one of the founders of a samizdat magazine Woman and Russia. As a result of this publication Malachowskaja, together with her fellow co-founders, was exiled from the USSR back in 1980. She has settled in Austria and has been writing and publishing books of fiction and non-fiction as well as participating in the art scene.
I believe this is her first work of fiction published in the English translation. The story, written in 2000s, fictionalizes some of her experiences from the 1970s that stood behind her feminist work. Don’t miss!
Olga Zilberbourg 