To date, the Dyachenkos have one previous novel, The Scar (2012), which was translated into English by Elinor Huntington. Along with Mikhail Elizarov’s The Librarian (2007) and, writing as Max Frei, Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik’s Labyrinths of Echo series (2009-2014), the Dyachenkos are some of the few contemporary Ukrainian writers of speculative fiction (or “fantastyka”) to be translated into English. Lauded both in their native Ukraine and within a Russian-speaking readership, the work of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko has received numerous awards, including the European Science Fiction Society’s for Best Writers of Europe (2005).
This burrowing and glitching of habitual reality is engineered through the entwined explorations of linguistic limits and bodily transformations, leading to a genuinely unique addition to the fantasy megatext. The novel veers through the betrayals of first love, and the perils of life in a remote college in rural Russia, to the gradual unmaking of the world through the ruptive coordinates of another/a greater reality. Vita Nostra, or “Our Life,” is a mercurial creature.
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