ABSTRACT
Among the works included in the shortlist for the prestigious Russian Booker literary award in 1998, one appeared particularly surprising with regard to genre, author and content. The jury had unanimously agreed to include the autobiographical text of Aleksandra Chistiakova, an elderly woman from the Siberian town of Kemerovo. This life history had been published with the title Ne mnogo li dlia odnoi? – 'Enough for one?' – by the journal Den' i Noch' (Day and Night), published in Krasnoiarsk. The book was edited by the journalist Vladimir Shiriaev. 1
