The Flower Cross

Elena Kolyadina · 2009 CE · Novel · Russian · Contemporary

A girl in seventeenth-century Totma, a town in northern Russia, is accused of witchcraft by a community that reads its own misfortunes in her. The novel is told in a mock-archaic Russian that makes the period's belief feel present. It won the Russian Booker in 2010 in an award that drew public dispute.

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