Prisoner

A handful of families several generations more than a few wars. Moscow Kabul Barcelona. Anna Nemzer announces herself on the literary scene boldly and loudly with this debut novel about the insane unspeakable nature of war about human fears treachery lies fateful coincidences and destinies during warfare when there is no room left for love. The protagonists survived the war and are rescued from captivity. They are not able however to leave the experiences of the war behind them and move on with their lives. The novel explores what happens once the conflict is over as they learn to live without the war with all their loves passions and weaknesses. Anna Nemzer was born in Moscow and graduated from the Historical and Philological faculty of the Russian State University for the Humanities. She worked as a journalist and an editor for the magazines Snob Russian Reporter and Around the World. She has also worked for the TV channel Kultura. Since 2008 Nemzer has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine Snob. In 2009 Nemzer wrote the first part of the novel Prisoner. It is not true dedicated to the memory of the generation affected by war. Prisoner was published in the journal Znamia and shortlisted for the Belkin Prize. In 2011 she finished the second part of the novel. The novel Prisoner is her debut in prose.