You know the funny thing is when you Google the exact same phrase alls the results are for authors from Russia? I mean if you have a recommendation that is from a Russian author thats okay too but I think people from the post Soviet countries will have similar experience but different from russian if you get what I am trying to say??
I’m looking either for a book, that captures the zeitgeist of being a woman, something that FEELS really feminine or just a story with a really interesting and captivating world building
by Bananaontheloose
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She’s second-gen but there’s Naomi Novik [Lithuanian/Polish]. Her standalone books, *Spinning Silver and Uprooted,* were widely acclaimed [both feature women MC].
Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
Kapka Kassabova (Bulgaria, now lives in Scotland)
Zlata Filipović (Bosnia)
The Women’s Dekameron by Yulia Voznesenskaya. Fun and easy read about women during the last years of the Soviet Union.
Drive your plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokazczuk. Polish novel about a strange woman guarding vacation homes in the Polish countryside.
I recently enjoyed the tigers wife by Téa Obreht
American author of Balkan descent, deals not so much with femininity as with family and tradition and the fall out of a war which re draws state boundaries
Also, just well written and a very engrossing story