Syndrome of Petrushka

Dina Rubin made the impossible - connected three different genres: an exciting almost Gothic novel about dolls and puppeteers, pulling together the pole of history and art, a family detective and psychological drama, traced from bright children"s and youthful memories to gray hair.
Passions and here "tears" heroes. A man and a doll, a puppeteer and an rebellious doll, a man as a doll - in the hands of fate, in the hands of the Creator, in the subordination of family heredity - this deep and multidimensional metaphor turned by the author with a variety of faces, not condescending to straightforward analogies.
The skill of the literary "painting" is ruby, landscape and portrait, as always - at the height: as if you eat fragrant delicious air with slices and suffocate from pleasure