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A stunning literary debut with shades of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami

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Béatrice, a solitary young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb, meets a mysterious woman named Polina. Polina visits her at night and whispers in her ear: ´There are people who leave their bodies and their bodies go on living without them. These people are named Natasha.´

César, a lonely Mexican actor working in a call centre, receives the opportunity of a lifetime: a role as a serial killer on a French TV series. But as he prepares for the audition, he starts falling in love with the psychopath he is to play.

Béatrice and César are drawn deeper into a city populated with visions and warnings, taunted by the chorusing of a group of young women, trapped in a windowless room, who all share the same name ... Natasha.A startlingly original novel that recalls the unsettling visual worlds of Cindy Sherman and David Lynch and the writing of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami, The Natashas establishes Yelena Moskovich as one of the most exciting young writers of her generation.

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A brave, original work... Moskovich´s prose radiates with heat... written in a Cubist jumble of voices, languages, and textures, The Natashas reads as if one were spinning a radio dial of the world... [it] urges the reader to sink back in, connect, breathe. Lauren Elkin Financial Times

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Moskovich, Yelena

YYelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born, American and French artist and writer, author of The Natashas (Serpent´s Tail, 2016), hailed by the Financial Times as ´brave, original prose [that] radiates with heat´, and named a book of the year by the Irish Times, Telegraph and Guardian.

She was born in the former USSR and emigrated to Wisconsin with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991. After graduating with a degree in playwriting from Emerson College, Boston, she moved to Paris to pursue movement composition at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre, and later its theoretical lens at Université Paris 8 with a Masters in Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics.
Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Vancouver, Paris, and Stockholm. Her work as a visual artist has been exhibited at Queer Biennial Los Angeles, where she has also served as a curator. She has also written for the New Statesman, 3:AM Magazine, Happy Reader, and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine. Excerpts from her forthcoming second novel Virtuoso (Serpent´s Tail, 2019) were published in the new issue of Dyke_On magazine.

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