I"m not afraid of a blue beard

Shana Valiulina was born in Tallinn (1964), graduated from Moscow State University, since 1989 he has been living in Amsterdam. The author of the books on the Dutch - the autobiographical novel “Cross” (2000), a collection of novels “From nowhere with Love”, the novel “Didar and Faru” (2006), nominated for the literary prize “Libris” and transferred to German, and the novel “A hundred years of comfort (2009) The new novel “I am not afraid of the Blue Beard” (2015) was written simultaneously in Gollandic and Russian. The Essay Livnies essay in 2016 was awarded the prestigious literary award “Jan Hanlo EssayPrijs.”
The novel “Not afraid of the Blue Beard”-about the generation of “Brezhnev’s children”, whose childhood and growing up was in the era of stagnation, - sewn from four spaces, four times. From the nostalgic-stealing village of Rukha on the Estonian coast in the seventies, where “silence, only pine trees are buzzing over boulders like antennas: the sea is broadcast”, with a mysterious house in which the mysterious incidents occur, through the tallinn of the milestone of the seventies and eighteen and hidden cruelty The Soviet school and Tallinn were beginning to the nineties, at the dawn of wild capitalism, with the cruelty of obvious and undisguised, to our time, a non-existent country and an era-Bez-Peremon