„Noah and Emma“ 

Noah and Emma is a work about dramatic, mystical, painful and, at the same time, very ordinary love between two young people. The reader will recognize the extremism of the behaviour, mindset, emotions and self-reflection of youth, and, on more rare occasions, discern the vacuum of true spiritual longing. A. Vilkaitė successfully exploits two important (and apparently beloved) mofits – fate and damnation. In the author's own words "There is no fate which you cannot lose, break or betray... The same goes for demnation." The author's medieval, however the action happens in contemporary Vilnius and Riga.

Aistė Vilkaitė (1988) – prose writer. She gratuated from secondary school in 2007 and is currently studying bio-information at the Vilnius University. In 2004, she was awarded a prize for poetry. Her novel, Noah and Emma, debuted in 2007 and won first prize in the young philology student competition.