Шлейф: Роман

Mesto deĭstvii͡a romana - karantinnyĭ Ierusalim, gorod, v kotorom sobytii͡a vetkhozavetnoĭ istorii i potri͡asenii͡a nedavnego proshlogo sushchestvui͡ut bok o bok. Palomniki, vozomnivshie sebi͡a t͡sari͡ami i messii͡ami, nakhodi͡atsi͡a na lechenii u psikhiatra. V t͡sentre chumovogo karnavala - geroini͡a, lishennai͡a ėgo i potomu ne sposobnai͡a k samoidentifikat͡sii. Ona "ishchet sebi͡a" v pustynnom Ierusalime i v dokumentakh neskolʹkikh pokoleniĭ semʹi, ispytavsheĭ vesʹ uzhas pervykh desi͡atiletiĭ Sovetskoĭ Rossii. Geroi prokladyvai͡ut svoi zaputannye marshruty v proshlom i nastoi͡ashchem, ikh sudʹby smeshivai͡utsi͡a i slivai͡utsi͡a mezhdu soboĭ, rifmui͡utsi͡a s bibleĭskimi sobytii͡ami, a vpletennye v tkanʹ povestvovanii͡a dokumenty, pisʹma i dnevnikovye zapisi stanovi͡atsi͡a kartoĭ, vedushcheĭ k obretenii͡u vechno uskolʹzai͡ushchego "i͡a". Elena Makarova - pisatelʹ, istorik, art-terapevt, rezhisser-dokumentalist, kurator vystavok. Avtor knig "Kak vylepitʹ otfyrkivanie", "T͡Sat͡sa zamorskai͡a", "Imi͡a razluki", "Fridl", "Vechnyĭ sdvig", "Putevoditelʹ poteri͡annykh", izdannykh v "NLO".

The setting of the novel is quarantine Jerusalem, a city in which the events of Old Testament history and the upheavals of the recent past exist side by side. Pilgrims who imagine themselves to be kings and messiahs are being treated by a psychiatrist. At the center of a freaky carnival is a heroine devoid of ego and therefore incapable of self—identification. She is "looking for herself" in a deserted Jerusalem and in the documents of several generations of a family that experienced all the horror of the first decades of Soviet Russia. The heroes plot their intricate routes in the past and present, their destinies mix and merge with each other, rhyme with biblical events, and documents, letters and diary entries woven into the fabric of the narrative become a map leading to finding the ever-elusive "I". Elena Makarova is a writer, historian, art therapist, documentary filmmaker, curator of exhibitions. Author of the books "How to sculpt snorting", "Swell overseas", "The name of separation", "Friedl", "Eternal shift", "Guide to the lost", published in "UFO".