If you’re longing for a good Russian novel – with an energetic plot, a complex character, lively details like the “silky mushroom crown” – Marina Stepnova’s book will surely satisfy your hunger.
The story of a peer of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist Lazar Moiseevich Lindt, who is hopelessly in love with the wife of his senior colleague, is written juicy, densely and generously – with the involvement of many cultural layers and texts – from the Song of Songs and the prophet Elijah to Bulgakov’s “White Guard” and Pasternak’s poems. Lindt saw the reincarnation of his unrequited love in the beautiful but absurd girl Galina – and he was mistaken. The wave of narration reaches our days, and only in the fate of the granddaughter of academician Lidochka everything “unraveled, resolved and reunited”. As it should be in a competent epic, the novel ends with the heroes finding their Home.
AST, ASTREL, 444 p.