Film critic and translator Mikhail Zakharov's debut novel hardly fits within the genre boundaries of the coming-of-age novel or any other conventional literary form. It's a collage of memoirs, film essays, and reviews, with careful bibliographical references, unexpected literary allusions, and quotes from comics and video games. Stories about Tinder dates and festival trips alternate with critical analyses of the works of Olivier Assayas and Claire Denis, and the book ends with a list of references. 'Dorama Romance' is a book about wandering and searching for oneself, about love and identity, a book about cinema, words, text, and images.

Author: Mikhail Zakharov
Publishing House: No Kidding Press
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 192
Cover type: paperback
Age group: 18+