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The Petroushka Syndrome
- Dina Rubina
- Categories:Romance
- Language:Russian（Translation Services Available）
- Publication date:January,2015
- Pages:432
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- Size:135mm×205mm
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★Much like in Lawrence Durrell’s time-enduring classic, Alexandria Quartet, Dina Rubina gives scene to a diverse cast of voices telling a wrenching, enchanted, tragic, somewhat mystical, evocative and an ultimately happy love story of a poignantly flawed puppeteer, touched by a true genius, and his fragile wife, haunted by the ghosts of her family’s dark past.
★Much like in Lawrence Durrell’s time-enduring classic, Alexandria Quartet, Dina Rubina gives scene to a diverse cast of voices telling a wrenching, enchanted, tragic, somewhat mystical, evocative and an ultimately happy love story of a poignantly flawed puppeteer, touched by a true genius, and his fragile wife, haunted by the ghosts of her family’s dark past.
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Part impassioned love drama, part evocative family story, part mystical Gothic novel about puppets and puppeteers, part intellectual examination of history and art –the Petroushka Syndrome is a beautifully symbiotic novel on the act of creation and identity, longing, loss and, ultimately, love.
When an 8-year-old boy, Petya Uksusov, watches a fi ery red-haired lady falling out of the window Oust like a puppet she fell!), he cannot envision that this image will trigger off his whole life’s two biggest obsessions: puppets and Liza. The same evening an enclosed, autistic Petya starts playing with fellow kids’ puppets, demonstrating unique skills and almost supernatural powers in performance, literally breathing life to dolls. Next day Petya notices a red-haired baby girl in a buggie at a grocery shop, and, smitten by the baby’s beauty Oust like a doll she is!), decides no better than kidnapping the girl. When Liza gets returned to her father, Petya discovers she is the suicide’s daughter. Petya never leaves the girl alone ever since, and when the girl grows of a college age they run away from her father, a lawyer with a repelling personality and troubling unhealthy sexual inclinations.
In years Petya becomes an internationally demanded puppeteer and marries Liza. Together they perform out a provocative and arresting dancing gig that wins the couple a vast acclaim. The death of their infant son from a rare and incurable genetic disorder, known as the Petroushka Syndrome (male infants in Liza’s family suffer from the syndrome through many generations, the symptoms include a heavy mental disability, a constant smile on the face, and an early death), drives both parents to the verge of despair - Petya, because his wife’s life falls out of his control, and Liza, because she fails in the fight with the sinister ghosts of her family’s dark past.
Liza suff ers from a severe mental breakdown and ends up in an Israeli re hab centre, in the care of Petya’ s childhood friend. Liza’s rehabilitation is disturbed when she discovers that Petya creates a new pup pet, his wife’s exact copy, a true masterpiece of his genius as a puppeteer, and now Ellis shall replace Liza in their famous dancing gig. As Liza frantically attempts to confront her Dop pelganger, her husband’s artful creation, Petya is set to fi nd the truth in their families’ past, the only truth that may save their marriage, career and even life.
Told through different narrators’ perspectives (Petya’s story is intersected with that of Boris’ - Petya’s childhood friend and Liza’s doctor), this melodramatic story expands on philosophical and psychological levels to reach out the depth and electricity of a true tragedy. Dina Rubina exquisitely renders a setting of a Polish- Jewish Lviv, a desperately vast of Sakhalin, a snowy Prague and a torrid Jerusalem with rich detail and texture. This becomes a colourful backstage for the author’s compelling version of a Pygmalion myth with sinister Golem’s echoes.
When an 8-year-old boy, Petya Uksusov, watches a fi ery red-haired lady falling out of the window Oust like a puppet she fell!), he cannot envision that this image will trigger off his whole life’s two biggest obsessions: puppets and Liza. The same evening an enclosed, autistic Petya starts playing with fellow kids’ puppets, demonstrating unique skills and almost supernatural powers in performance, literally breathing life to dolls. Next day Petya notices a red-haired baby girl in a buggie at a grocery shop, and, smitten by the baby’s beauty Oust like a doll she is!), decides no better than kidnapping the girl. When Liza gets returned to her father, Petya discovers she is the suicide’s daughter. Petya never leaves the girl alone ever since, and when the girl grows of a college age they run away from her father, a lawyer with a repelling personality and troubling unhealthy sexual inclinations.
In years Petya becomes an internationally demanded puppeteer and marries Liza. Together they perform out a provocative and arresting dancing gig that wins the couple a vast acclaim. The death of their infant son from a rare and incurable genetic disorder, known as the Petroushka Syndrome (male infants in Liza’s family suffer from the syndrome through many generations, the symptoms include a heavy mental disability, a constant smile on the face, and an early death), drives both parents to the verge of despair - Petya, because his wife’s life falls out of his control, and Liza, because she fails in the fight with the sinister ghosts of her family’s dark past.
Liza suff ers from a severe mental breakdown and ends up in an Israeli re hab centre, in the care of Petya’ s childhood friend. Liza’s rehabilitation is disturbed when she discovers that Petya creates a new pup pet, his wife’s exact copy, a true masterpiece of his genius as a puppeteer, and now Ellis shall replace Liza in their famous dancing gig. As Liza frantically attempts to confront her Dop pelganger, her husband’s artful creation, Petya is set to fi nd the truth in their families’ past, the only truth that may save their marriage, career and even life.
Told through different narrators’ perspectives (Petya’s story is intersected with that of Boris’ - Petya’s childhood friend and Liza’s doctor), this melodramatic story expands on philosophical and psychological levels to reach out the depth and electricity of a true tragedy. Dina Rubina exquisitely renders a setting of a Polish- Jewish Lviv, a desperately vast of Sakhalin, a snowy Prague and a torrid Jerusalem with rich detail and texture. This becomes a colourful backstage for the author’s compelling version of a Pygmalion myth with sinister Golem’s echoes.
Author
Dina Rubina
Dina Rubina is an Israeli Russian-language writer. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1953, Dina
Rubina had her first stories published in 1970s in Yunost (Youth) magazine. She has received numerous awards, and is the bestselling author of over 40 titles, including eight novels. Dina Rubina’s novels and novellas have been made into films, adapted for TV, and staged in theaters in Russia and Israel. Dina Rubina is the Big Book Award winner (2007) for the novel On the Sunny Side of the Street and the Russian Prize finalist for the novel the White Dove of Cordoba. the total print run of the novel the White Dove of Cordoba is 180,000 copies to date. Each new title by Dina Rubina is published in a first edition of 80,000 copies. Since 1990 Dina Rubina has lived in Ma’ale-Adumim, Israel with her family, artist Boris Karafelov, her daughter, and grandchildren.
Dina Rubina is an Israeli Russian-language writer. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1953, Dina
Rubina had her first stories published in 1970s in Yunost (Youth) magazine. She has received numerous awards, and is the bestselling author of over 40 titles, including eight novels. Dina Rubina’s novels and novellas have been made into films, adapted for TV, and staged in theaters in Russia and Israel. Dina Rubina is the Big Book Award winner (2007) for the novel On the Sunny Side of the Street and the Russian Prize finalist for the novel the White Dove of Cordoba. the total print run of the novel the White Dove of Cordoba is 180,000 copies to date. Each new title by Dina Rubina is published in a first edition of 80,000 copies. Since 1990 Dina Rubina has lived in Ma’ale-Adumim, Israel with her family, artist Boris Karafelov, her daughter, and grandchildren.
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