Sonechka
Ludmila Ulitskaya
1992
Almost before she was out of the cradle, Sonechka was a bookworm. As Efrem, elder brother and family satirist, never tired of repeating, “All that reading has given Sonechka a butt like a chair and a nose like a pear.”
Unfortunately, his formulation was not too far off the mark. Her nose really was pear-shaped, and lanky broad-shouldered Sonechka…
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