Oleg Borishovich Portnov - The instructor assigned to Sasha’s courses of specialized study.Konstantin (Kostya) Kozhennikov - A student in Sasha’s class and son of Farit Kozhennikov.Farit Kozhennikov - The recruiter and advisor of Sasha.
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She enrolls in a school in the fictional town of Torpa. Alexndra (Sasha) Samokhina - The novel’s protagonist.There she studies with other young adults who, like her, are enrolled against their will. He gives Sasha a strange and non-negotiable series of tasks, ultimately drawing her away from her family to a remote university. During their stay a man appears who at first follows Sasha at a distance, later making contact with her in what appears to be a dream. The novel opens with Sasha Samokhina vacationing at the beach with her mother. Translated to English as:Our life is brief The novel combines the seemingly incongruous aspects-spectacular adventures and philosophical depth, incredible transformations and psychological accuracy, complexity of ethical issues and mundane details of urban life.Īlso by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko: My review of The Scar.The novel takes its title from the lyrics of a commercium song commonly known as Gaudeamus igitur:Vita nostra brevis est VITA NOSTRA is a thrilling journey into the deepest mysteries of existence, a dizzying adventure, an opening into a world that no one has ever described, a world that frightens and attracts the readers of the novel. Governed by fear and coercion, Sasha will learn the meaning of the phrase "In the beginning was the word. A slightest misstep or failure at school-and the students' loved ones pay a price. Against her will, she must enter the Institute of Special Technologies. The heroine of the novel has been forced into a seemingly inconceivable situation.
The words VITA NOSTRA, or "our life," come from an old Latin student anthem Gaudeamus : "Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur" or "Our life is brief, It will shortly end.
Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2012, approximately 144,000 words (Originally published in Russian in 2007)
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