Signs of Silence: A Novella of Self-Discovery and Inner Peace
A novella that reads like a puzzle — the full picture comes into focus only on the last page. Its staccato rhythm mirrors the heroine’s own cadence: a simple love story woven into a complex journey of self-discovery and inner quiet.
Nina Trox
Oksana Trutneva, who writes under the pen name Nina Trox, is a prose writer, poet, and literary critic. Born in Halle, Germany, in 1978, she trained at the literary masterclass of the Musaget Foundation and, in 2008, studied poetry and prose with English writer Tobias Hill and English poet Pascale Petit.
Her work has appeared in a wide range of literary journals and almanacs across Kazakhstan, Russia, and Germany — among them Prostor, Tamyr, Literaturnaya Alma-Ata, Russia’s Novy Mir, the young writers’ journal Prolog, the almanac Linki dlya strannikov, and the Germany-based Za-Za, as well as the online edition of the Musaget Foundation.
Today she teaches and leads the prose seminar at the Open Literary School of Almaty (OLSHA), mentoring a new generation of Kazakhstani writers.
Signs of Silence reads like a puzzle whose full picture comes into focus only on the last page — a simple love story woven into a complex journey of self-discovery and inner quiet.