The fierce, thrilling and acclaimed memoir of Maria Alyokhina- artist, protestor, outsider, prisoner, survivor.
Maria Alyokhina is a political activist, artist and member of Pussy Riot collective. Her first book Riot Days was highly acclaimed and translated into many languages.
Reading: RIOT DAYS, by #PussyRiot member MariaAlyokhina. A women's
prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!
*@MargaretAtwood*
A future cult classic
*Vogue*
Riot Days could so easily have been a straightforward,
from-the-horse's-mouth confessional account of one of the most
publicised political protests of recent years. Alyokhina takes on a
far greater challenge: creating a text that is not just a
reflection on a piece of art, but becomes one itself, and one that,
in many places, lives up to her own criteria of protest: that it
must be "desperate, sudden, and joyous"
*Guardian*
The literary equivalent of guerrilla street art
*The Times*
Urgent and bold
*Financial Times*
[An] energetic and enjoyable prison diary ... A search for
meaningful protest in an age in which presidents often appear to be
playful performance artists
*Spectator*
Alyokhina's eye for surreal detail gives Riot Days a welcome dose
of dark humor ... Through the chinks in the abusive system,
Alyokhina glimpses human beings
*The New York Times Book Review*
Strong, brave, honest, touching, bitter and sad
*Vladimir Sorokin, master of contemporary Russian literature*
One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years.
Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom
*Chris Kraus, author of 'I Love Dick'*
Accessible and inspiring
*Huck Magazine*
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