Julia Voznesenskaya
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Russia
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of books with an Orthodox Christian worldview.
In 1976 Voznesenskaya was sentenced to four years of exile for Anti-Soviet Propaganda. In 1980 she emigrated to Germany
Germany
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. In 1996-1999 she lived in Lesninsky Russian Orthodox Convent in Chauvincourt-Provemont
Chauvincourt-Provemont
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, Normandy
Normandy
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, France
France
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. Since 2002 she has lived in Berlin
Berlin
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Her works include The Star Chernobyl, about three sisters involved in the Chernobyl
Chernobyl
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disaster; and her first novel, The Women's Decameron, about ten pregnant women in a maternity ward who are quarantine
Quarantine
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d for ten days and - inspired by The Decameron
The Decameron
The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people....
- decide to tell ten stories each day, about life in 1980s Russia
Russia
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. My Posthumous Adventures (Мои посмертные приключения) is a fictional story of what her heroine experiences after clinical death. She is a laureate of the prizes Orthodox Christian Book of Russia (Православная книга России) and Alye Parusa (Crimson Sails). Her book series "The Yulianna" is sometimes classified as anti-Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
since it is a children's series that supports the Christian faith instead of witchcraft and magic. It tells the story of twin girls separated at birth and posits a Christian view of spiritual battle where angels and demons are real and prayer and Christian life or selfishness and giving in to temptation have real spiritual causes or results, and how prayer really can be 'magic'. Probably her most popular book is the first of a two-part series, called "Cassandra's Path, or Adventures with Macaroni", a science fiction apocalyptic view from an Orthodox perspective of the last days and the AntiChrist, and of one woman's journey to faith.