A writer perceives the world differently than other people. A writer wakes up and sees a void around him, and this void must be filled—with words. A writer sits down and fills this void, creating a different world within it. And he lives in two worlds—real life and the text.
But often these worlds merge, text penetrates life and displaces it, replacing it with itself. This is what happened to Liza Nelidova, the heroine of the novel "Paper Sun": another world seeped into her life through the text she wrote, and now Liza doesn't know what's real and what's a figment of her imagination. Or whether there's a difference between the two worlds.