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Title details for The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh - Available

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3

A Novel

by Kira Yarmysh
Arch Tait
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The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center.
In a large barren room furnished only with communal bunkbeds, Anya meets her cellmates: five ordinary Russian women arrested on petty charges. They come from all strata and experiences of Russian society, and as they pass the long hours waiting to be released, they slowly build trust and companionship while sipping tea from plastic cups and playing games. Above all, they talk: about politics, feminism, their families, their sexualities, and how to make the most of prison life. Yet as the waking days stretch listlessly before Anya, soon she is plagued by strange nightmarish visions and begins to wonder if her cellmates might not actually be as ordinary as they seem. Will the façade of everyday life ultimately crack for good?
A brilliant exploration of what it means to be marginalized both as an independent woman in general and in an increasingly intolerant Russia in particular, and a powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition, The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 introduces one of the most urgent and gripping new voices in international literature.

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    March 28, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9798350811230
      • File size: 385195 KB
      • Duration: 13:22:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 21, 2022
      Yarmysh’s provocative debut offers a jaundiced view of life in a Russian detention center. Anya Romanova, 28, is arrested after being in the wrong place at the wrong time at a protest rally, and is sentenced to 10 days in jail. There, she meets a motley group of women: Katya and Diana are in for driving without valid licenses, as is Maya, whose been trading on her plastic surgery enhancements for a life of luxury with various wealthy boyfriends. Natasha swore at a cop; Ira refused to pay alimony. Behind bars, it’s a dreary environment: the inmates are fed and allowed to shower at the mercy of the capricious staff, a radio blares at all hours, and the exercise area is a sad enclosed square. As the days wear on, Anya starts hallucinating about her fellow inmates, imagining narratives for them that distract from the power of Anya’s own unfolding backstory, which involves abandonment by her father at nine, being shipped off to another family as a teen, and later having a troubling internship at the Foreign Ministry, where she has a run-in with a sexual predator. Though there are rewards in the revealing look at how Russia metes out harsh punishments for small crimes, the mystical elements make this a bit muddled.

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