I’ve considered myself a New Yorker ever since. At some point it became too exciting for my blood, and after the second coup d’état in 1993 I came to live in the States. Moscow in the 90s was like Berlin in the 20s: dangerous, vibrant and exciting. I found work as a translator and later as a writer for a foreign newspaper. I received a classical fine arts training, and a Masters degree in English, but just as it was my time to become a productive member of society, the country I knew fell apart at the seams. In retrospect, it was a winning combination of a happy childhood and a subversive youth. “I was born in Moscow, grew up in the Soviet Union during the 70s, and had a chance to experience both the security and the subjugation of the totalitarian state. She spoke to us about some of her most compelling images: She continues to refashion existing fantasy dolls – from Soom and Dollstown – and custom sculpt her own models to create tableaux that add an extra dimension to the characters that can be found in her written fantasy fiction. Svetova became an internet sensation after the photographs of her series of David Bowie dolls went viral.
Svetova’s intricate, elaborately styled characters and the urban scenarios she puts them in are as cinematic and compelling as anything that Cindy Sherman has created. Before she discovers the truth about love, she has to learn the value of loss, only then can she find the way home.“I don’t pretend to be an artist, I just play with dolls.” She has to unlock secret doors, make new friends, negotiate glaciers and battle tunnel-dwelling beasts, all the while trying to win the affection of the oblivious boy she likes and fend off the advances of a mysterious sorcerer she hatesĪs Anna struggles against the monstrous world, she fights the inner monsters as well.
Run by elves-and not the Keebler kind-it's a confusing and dangerous place.
Mistaken for a boy, Anna is accepted by the peculiar Skiers as one of their own, and becomes trapped in the Wyssun' World. Much to her surprise she meets another cross-country skier, a boy about her own age, and follows him into a snow-covered magical Otherworld inhabited by the monstrous Wyssun and the Skiers who hunt them. After another argument with her mother, she defiantly sneaks out to ski in Riverside Park. Join the unlikely heroine on an adventure of a lifetime! Lush watercolor illustrations of cool characters, weird monsters, and spooky villains.įourteen-year-old Anna has just moved to New York with her mother and stepfather, and she hates everything about her new life. For the fans of Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl's storytelling: a down-to-earth teen girl must get back home from the Otherworld before the fairytale dream turns into a nightmare.
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