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. 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. As they extend peripherally, they become more superficial and their musculotendinous junctions cross over the extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis tendons (proximal intersection). Against her will, she must enter the Institute of Special Technologies. The abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis muscles originate deep in the ulnar side of the forearm. 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) Publishing country: Russia Language: Russian Author: Dyachenko M.YU., Dyachenko S.S.
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