Music Teacher

Zoya Master was born and raised in Chisinau. She studied in Moscow.
He's a musicologist by training. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1990.

Her stories and novels are published by the main American Russian-language publications - "Word / Word", "New Journal", "Panorama", "Swan", "Seagull", "Russian Bazaar", "Coast". In addition to prose, he works in the genre of journalism and interviews.

In the understanding of Zoe Master, it is writing that gives a sense of real freedom when the author is the creator of characters and destinies, when fictional or “peeped” heroes, coming to life in prose, continue to live their own lives.

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A book

Zoe Master’s collection of short stories and novels will not pass unnoticed, because this book is one of those that you read in one breath, without stopping, and then with regret turn over the last page.

The plots of the stories are diverse, fascinating and multifaceted: this is a look from adult life at childhood, with its fears and an attempt to understand what a soul is, and the intersection of destinies, sometimes coexisting in different time spaces. These are reflections on the futile pursuit of perfection, on the eternal struggle between talent and mediocrity, on love, on inspiration, on us as we are alone.

The author’s observation, attention to detail, psychological saturation and impeccable style, where each word is in its place, makes the texts so visible and tangible that sometimes there is a strange feeling of fusion, belonging to what is happening on the pages of the book. And after reading it, I want, as a child, to climb up on the sofa and talk about what was and what will be with us.

About the book - reviews, opinions, reviews

Zoe Master is distinguished by the ability to create that special world for which a person reads books. The main thing in this prose is not the language and not even the plot, but the possibility of immersing the reader in someone else’s life, in which he can forget about his own. This is how the stories of Zoe Master attract the reader with the peculiarity of dramatic characters in dramatic situations.

Nina Voronel, poet, playwright