Anna Borisova (Boris Akunin). There. Creative. The Times

The "Authors" project is Boris Akunin's new personas. Anna Borisova writes psychological fiction. Two short novels ("There..." and "The Creative") and one longer novel, "Seasons," have been published under this pseudonym.

"There..." is a novel that speculates about what awaits each of us on the Other Side. The novel's characters navigate this fateful journey in their own way. Some follow the path laid out by Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism. Others take more bizarre routes. Want to know what Faith and Unbelief promise? Then this book, simultaneously informative, terrifying, and humorous, is for you.

The wealth of plots, styles, and authorial techniques contained in this compact work would be enough for several books, and of various genres at that. The novel "The Creative Worker" possesses two rarely combined qualities: it's a quick read, but not quickly forgotten. This text also has another unusual quality. It's difficult to determine whether this is serious literature masquerading as a joke, or the exact opposite.

The novel "Seasons" is written eclectically, in the spirit of the refined English postmodernism of James Joyce and the elegant conceptual style of novelist John Fowles. One could even say that it absorbs all the riches of the genre masterfully cultivated by the psychologist and God-seeker Dostoevsky and the brilliant novelist-mystifier Franz Kafka. Most importantly, the book is written with soul and from the heart, making it an incredibly enjoyable and emotionally rewarding read.
This novel is about the "flower of life"—the inner strength and intelligence that reside within a person, enabling them to be happy until the end of their days. The book depicts a surprising spiritual connection between a young girl and a paralyzed old woman, destined never to experience old age. The former because of an incurable disease that kills people at a young age, the latter for the same reason in her old age. And both live as if exchanging souls in turn.