About the Book:
A historical novel about love and Odessa. About the shift of time and the rupture of eras. About emigration and how war destroys, while life triumphs. About feelings and calling, and about how uniquely beautiful our Odessa was a hundred years ago.
This is a memoir novel, an epistolary novel. Athens, 1922. A young woman, Sonya, writes a letter to her friend in Constantinople. She is full of hope and preparing for marriage. In her letters, she reminisces about her past in Odessa—a series of memories of childhood and youth within the circle of the Jewish intelligentsia, trials of the era, war, Bolshevik occupation, and the rescue on a ship during the January evacuation of 1920. But the main focus in her letters is the story of life and love with her first husband. He, a renowned Odessa doctor, was declared missing without a trace. And now, everything—from their first meeting to the last night—becomes a chronicle of this complex but unwavering love.
 
About the Author:
Sonya Kapinus was born in Kharkiv, graduated from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, with a degree in philology. Her scientific interests lie in Odessa's cultural myth and the Odessa text of the first third of the 20th century.
 
At the age of 27, she entered the philological faculty (second higher education). She started writing, mastered copywriting, grew into authorial materials on art and architecture, but felt it was not enough.
 
In the summer of 2020, Sonya joined the Jack Grapes Method Writing course, and her life divided into "before" and "after." By September, she had written the first chapters of her debut novel, completing the work during the bombing of Kyiv and Odessa.
Currently, Sonya is working on her second novel.