The author of this book is a stalker. She has a unique optics that allows her to cross the borderline between the real and the other worlds as if no such border has ever existed. From the inside of the text /there seems to be no such borderline for you either, /and you get to understand /how the universe works, and you always knew it, of course, but somehow forgot. And now you remember again.
Razor-sharp, whimsical yet lucid prose of Zamriovskaya takes the reader by hand and leads through the looking glass to reveal one’s real self. It is too late to close your eyes from fear and pretend you have not been there. ——Natalia Lomykina , Forbes.ru

There’s something wrong here, but what? While life is similar to art — its coincidents and inconsistencies, hopeful occurrences and recurrent turns of fortune— the real art is never similar to life. Or maybe, it is, though, with its misleading optics, a curved beam of light. Here it is, this curve, a frighteningly recognizable unrecognition. Here is my briefcase returned, but maybe this one is not mine, after all, and belongs to someone else — or maybe, I am that someone. Zamirovskaya peeks into the other world which is intervening with our world, just like K harms’ messengers, causing sudden Goosebumps all over the skin.
—— Matvei Yankelevich, A poet and translator (New York)

With every story, every episode, and word Zamirovskaya probes the world for its resistence, as a child first pokes with a stick what he is afraid to touch with his hands. Is it what it looks? And if different, is it good or evil, a truth or a lie? The answers often betray expectations, however, the author’s optimism makes her continue with the research. Indeed, we only live as long as we continue to ask questions. ——Anna Kozlova , The prize-winning author of F20


Each story is a puzzle in the labyrinths of mirrors, but the text has nothing to do with a calculated narrative. Love and memory spring here through the basement of the universe, a living organism fuelled with heart beats of readers and the writer alike. ———Alexander Gavrilov , A publisher and critic

Reminiscent of Black Mirror with a dark metaphysical twist, The Land of Random Numbers is a collection of 23 stories dwelling on the “what if?” Question. What if people reincarnated back in time in whole clusters? How about a game of Mafia, but with real murders? What if you could pass the trials of the Last Judgment during your lifetime? What if David Bowie didn’t really die, and Joseph Beuys was not rescued and cared for by Crimean Tatars, but by teenage girls in a suburban summer home? What if you lost the ability to speak after a brain injury, but there was still a conscious and verbal part of your brain that claimed a different personality? What if a new virus emerges, intertwining humans and nature into a global mystical “bio text”? And what do you do if you start hearing voices, where one of them is Stalin, and the other is an incoherent half-mute desperate to communicate?

Zamirovskaya stories unravel in realities similar to ours, albeit with a touch of the fantastic. They evolve from themes of the mundane, bureaucracy, power and family. In this transformed universe, time travel is possible, the world can change in a blink of an eye, familiar historical figures play completely different roles, and an ordinary game can become something much more threatening and sinister than ever imagined.

Tatsiana imbues her personal memories with the dark surrealism of totalitarian-era writing, ghost stories, and children’s folklore, creating spine-chilling, absurd narratives about distorted normativity, in which the surreal takes over and becomes the norm..

Much inspired by metaphysical realism, Tatsiana skillfully intertwines the ideas of quantum theory, neuroscience and biology to explore the nature of things in an attempt to look beyond reality as we know it, to achieve a multi-dimensional perception of the world. With its poetic language, replete with exquisite metaphors and mesmerizing rhythms, this captivating book lures the reader into the glimmering net of universal existential questions. The Land of Random Numbers is a strikingly humane book about coming of age, violence, language deprivation and broken memory, withholding answers but offering vast spaces for contemplation.

About the author
Tatsiana Zamirovskaya is a writer, music critic and journalist from Minsk, Belarus who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with a degree in Journalism from Belarusian State University (2002) and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Bard College. Her journalistic works have been published in a variety of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian media outlets. In Belarus, she worked as a magazine editor (Jazz-Quad Magazine, Belarus, Doberman magazine), and as the arts and culture observer at Belagazeta, the most prominent Belarusian independent weekly newspaper. She also had a successful career as a music critic.

In 2015, Tatsiana moved to New York to earn her MFA at Bard College, where her thesis was an English-language novel-in- progress, Silence Fiction. In this project, she moved away from her native language, exploring the concepts of alienation and studying the effects of language insufficiency on memory, narration and representation.

Tatsiana presented excerpts from this work-in-progress were during readings at New York institutions such as Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Howl! Happening gallery, Printed Matter bookstore, and Leslie Lohman’s Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.In 2018, Tatsiana won a fellowship from Macdowell Colony and, in 2019, was accepted to VCCA artist colony.

Tatsiana is the author of three Russian-language short stories collections: Life without Noise and Pain (2010), Sparrow River (2010), and The Land of Random Numbers (2019), published by AST Publishing House in Moscow. Tatsiana’s short stories have been published in Russian-language magazines worldwide. In September 2018 her short story Honeyfast was awarded the Gorchev Award, a prestigious Russian prize for short fiction. The Deadnet, her debut novel, received nominations for New Literature Award and The National Bestseller Prize in 2021.

Selected Bibliography
2021 — The Dead Net, novel
2019 — The Land of Random Numbers, short stories
2015 — Sparrow River, short stories
2010 — Life without Noise and Pain, short stories