Не на том свете

Dasha zhivet v rezhime non-stop: rabota, komandirovki, beskonechnye gostinichnye nomera, pokhozhie odin na drugoĭ. Kogda-to ona vybrala karʹeru i dostigla uspekha, a lichnui͡u zhiznʹ otlozhila "na potom". Teperʹ ėto "potom" prevratilosʹ v pustotu, no ostanovitʹsi͡a uzhe nevozmozhno. Ili vozmozhno?Odnazhdy vse meni͡aetsi͡a. Dasha otkryvaet glaza i ponimaet: chto-to poshlo ne tak. Ona v neznakomom meste, gde vstrechaet strannykh li͡udeĭ - kazhdyĭ so svoeĭ bolʹi͡u, kazhdyĭ chego-to zhdet. Kazhetsi͡a, eĭ dali shans uvidetʹ svoi͡u zhiznʹ so storony i reshitʹ, stoit li v nee vozvrashchatʹsi͡a.Novyĭ roman Mashi Traub - kniga dli͡a vsekh, kto chuvstvuet, chto zastri͡al, ustal pritvori͡atʹsi͡a i mechtaet o vtorom shanse. Nachatʹ zanovo nikogda ne pozdno. Esli reshishʹsi͡a."Sushchestvuet li zhiznʹ posle smerti? Kto by ne khotel poluchitʹ otvet na ėtot vopros. A, bytʹ mozhet, estʹ mesta, v kotorye popadai͡ut li͡udi v pogranichnom sostoi͡anii - mezhdu zhiznʹ i smertʹi͡u? Vozmozhno, ėto goroda, pokhozhie na obychnye. I zhiznʹ tam pokhozha na obychnui͡u. Chto zastavli͡aet cheloveka borotʹsi͡a za zhiznʹ ili sdavatʹsi͡a? Mogut li rodnye li͡udi vernutʹ svoego blizkogo s togo sveta? A, mozhet, vysshie sily spet͡sialʹno otpravli͡ai͡ut cheloveka ne na tot svet, chtoby on poni͡al, chto ego mesto poka na ėtom. I u nego estʹ vybor - ostatʹsi͡a tam ili vernutʹsi͡a, potomu chto ėtot chelovek nuzhen zdesʹ, na ėtom svete. Zhiznʹ - ėto kogda chelovek komu-to nuzhen". - Masha Traub

Dasha lives in a non-stop mode: work, business trips, endless hotel rooms, similar to one another. Once she chose a career and achieved success, but postponed her personal life "for later." Now that "later" has turned into emptiness, but it's impossible to stop. Or is it possible?One day everything changes. Dasha opens her eyes and realizes that something has gone wrong. She is in an unfamiliar place, where she meets strange people — each with their own pain, each waiting for something. It seems that she was given a chance to see her life from the outside and decide whether to return to it.Masha Traub's new novel is a book for everyone who feels stuck, tired of pretending and dreaming of a second chance. It's never too late to start over. If you decide."Is there life after death? Who wouldn't want to get an answer to this question? Or maybe there are places where people find themselves in a borderline state — between life and death? Perhaps these are cities that look like ordinary ones. And life there is similar to usual. What makes a person fight for life or give up? Can loved ones bring their loved ones back from the dead? Or maybe higher powers are deliberately sending a person to the wrong world so that he understands that his place is still there. And he has a choice — to stay there or to return, because this person is needed here in this world. Life is when someone needs someone." — Masha Traub