Marina and Sergey Dyachenko Vita Nostra"Vita Nostra" is considered to be one of the best books of the creative tandem of the Dyachenko spouses. What is the secret of the popularity of this work?



Lazing on the sea, an ordinary schoolgirl Sasha Samokhina meets strange man, which gives her an order. At four in the morning Sasha should come to the beach, undress, swim a hundred meters and touch the buoy with a hand. It's easy, right?



Punishment for disobedience is unhappiness,falling on Sasha's relatives. She has to carry out strange assignments of the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov even after returning to his native city. Farit correctly calculated everything: The most effective motivation is fear. Fear not for yourself, but for your own people.



When Sasha finishes school, Farit informs her that she is accepted into the school. Institute of Special Technologies the city of Torpa. It is impossible to refuse, and Sasha, driven by fear and curiosity, enters into student life.



Strange teachers, strange tasks,the constant need to step over yourself and go beyond the limits of human capabilities - that's what Sasha has to face on the way ... on the road to what? Nobody knows this. None of the junior students knows what awaits them further, and no one has ever seen senior students after the exam.



What awaits Sasha in the future? In whom, to be exact - what will it turn into after the most important exam?



"Vita Nostra" is the first book from the conditional cycle "Metamorphoses" Kiev fantasy of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko. She initiated the idea that writers later developed in the books "Digital or Brevis Est" and "Migrant or Brevi Finietur", the idea of ​​turning a person into a kind of super-being. The new status promises tempting opportunities - but what price do they have to pay for this?



"Vita Nostra" is imbued with the finest psychologism. The authors filed out the changes filigree,occurring in the minds of Sasha while studying at a strange institute. The heroine is moved by fear, and the authors with extraordinary skill open the psychology of this fear, create a believable atmosphere, helping the reader to dive into it, so that later he emerges, gasping for air, and asked himself: "If I could feel at least an echo of this fear - Did she feel it? "



"Vita Nostra" is a wonderful example of modern psychological fantasy, which goes beyond the usual modern fantasy. The book received an award "The Golden Caduceus" festival "Star Bridge 2007" in the nomination "Large form".



Quotations from the book



"There are words - sex, garbage, and they turnin nothing, barely sounded. Others cast shadows, ugly and pitiful, and sometimes beautiful and powerful, capable of saving the perishing. But only some of these words become people and also speak words. And everyone in the world has a chance to meet someone whom he himself once said aloud ... "



"To live is to be vulnerable. To love is to be afraid. And whoever is not afraid - he is calm, like a boa constrictor, and can not love. "



"Happiness is that which any person feels that coincides with his destiny."

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