“Sasha herself had changed. It felt as if she had been taken apart – and then put back together again, but at first glance she seemed exactly the same. Sometimes even she herself thought that she was exactly the same as last fall, when they had listened to “Gaudeamus” in the assembly hall.”

“Sasha herself had changed. It felt as if she had been taken apart – and then put back together again, but at first glance she seemed exactly the same. Sometimes even she herself thought that she was exactly the same as last fall, when they had listened to “Gaudeamus” in the assembly hall.”

— Marina Dyachenko