Anna Desnitskaya

Sep 4, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Anna Desnitskaya

On February 17, 2022, Anna Desnitskaya traveled with her family from her beloved hometown of Moscow to Cyprus for a week-long vacation. While there, they learned that Russia had invaded Ukraine. Knowing what would almost surely lie ahead if they returned home, they instead took on the tremendous unanticipated challenge of emigration.

Apr 2, 2024 | thebanner.org | Anna Desnitskaya

In this cleverly formatted children’s picture book, author and illustrator Anna Desnitskaya captures the lives and dreams of two lonely children from opposite sides of the world who long for friendship and understanding. When young readers open the cover of one side of the book, they’ll meet Vera. She lives on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, a place that her mother refers to as the edge of the world.

Aug 1, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Jhumpa Lahiri |Roz Chast |Judith Henderson |Anna Desnitskaya

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