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Love's Lonely Pursuits

by Marina Sonkina

Love and private lives amid history

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Love and private lives amid history

Marina Sonkina’s collection moves among people confronting love, longing, memory, and the search for meaning. Its stories range from a Chilean expatriate’s return after 25 years to a widower’s conversations with a young child, alongside a draft evader turning to First Nations stories and a writer reshaping unrequited love through art. The collection also includes a novella that reimagines Cassandra’s tragedy in post-Gorbachev Moscow, where historical upheaval bears on private lives. Together, these pieces connect intimate attachments and unresolved pasts with the larger pressures of history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in linked themes of love, longing, and personal memory.
  • Those drawn to stories spanning different lives and cultural contexts.
  • Readers curious about a modern literary reworking of the Cassandra myth in post-Gorbachev Moscow.

Themes

Love and longingMemory and returnSearch for meaningHistory and private lifeMyth retold

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Book overview

These are moving tales of love, longing and Redemption told by people from all walks of life: a Chilean expat returning to Chile after 25 years only to confront the secret he hoped would be

forgotten; a widower who is reinvigorated by conversations with a five-year-old; a Vietnam War draft evader who seeks meaning in traditional First Nations stories; a writer who tries to transform unrequited love into art.

This collection of stories includes the novella that takes a reader on a different path. The tragedy of Cassandra, the prophetess of Greek mythology, whose predictions nobody believed, is now playing out in opulent post-Gorbachev Moscow. Caught under the wheel of history that crushes people's private lives and loves, the heroine of the story refuses to live in fear.

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