Citaat: 'De korste weg naar het geluk is het geluk zelf'
Lofzang op de vrijheid door een van de opmerkelijkste schrijfsters van de nieuwe Russische generatie.

Okolo Ekolo has been translated by Masha Gesser as In the Here & There. Harvey Pekar's review in The Austin Chronicle (Oct. 20, 2000):

Ménage situations are dealt with again in In the Here & There. Sisters Yezdandukta and Petia get involved with a sculptor named Boris, who loves Petia but marries Yezdandutkta. Other characters include Kostroma and Dyl, who collaborate to hatch a monster called an "andy-baby."

Narbikova speculates about all sorts of things, such as the reality of text vs. the reality of life, "This alternate reality (the text) cannot contain within itself the other reality (life)..." She notes, "It's a rare country where no one lives because everyone's struggling, a country of experiments -- but life is not an experiment, life is only for life."