The Natashas

<p>Béatrice a solitary young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb meets a mysterious woman named Polina. Polina visits her at night and whispers in her ear: <i>'There are people who leave their bodies and their bodies go on living without them. These people are named Natasha.'</i><br><i></i><br><i></i>César a lonely Mexican actor working in a call centre receives the opportunity of a lifetime: a role as a serial killer on a French TV series. But as he prepares for the audition he starts falling in love with the psychopath he is to play. </p><p>Béatrice and César are drawn deeper into a city populated with visions and warnings taunted by the chorusing of a group of young women trapped in a windowless room who all share the same name ... <i>Natasha</i>.</p><p>A startlingly original novel that recalls the unsettling visual worlds of Cindy Sherman and David Lynch and the writing of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami <i>The Natashas</i> establishes Yelena Moskovich as one of the most exciting young writers of her generation.</p>>