SHOCK. That is the first thing you experience on reading Nadezhda Nelidova’s book “The Pit”.Two strikingly realistic stories are unveiled before our eyes. Two people related to the author preferred to leave this life voluntarily rather than suffer unbearable pain and loneliness.The author is grateful to the experienced British linguist and translator JACK DOUGHTY for his cooperation.
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Nadezhda Nelidova. The Pit
THE PIT
CRYSTAL WORLD (THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY OF A SUICIDE)
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“You’re in deep trouble, young lady. You’re in deep trouble.”
The phrase goes round and round in my head. Where is it from, from which book? It’s of no significance. Nothing has any significance now. It’s like running madly at full tilt into a brick wall.
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The months of chemotherapy were behind her.
Now, from morn till night, her days were devoted to dieting. She squeezed vegetable juices – she cleaned out the cellars of all those she knew in the village.
