Olga Simonova-Partan about childhood and the difficult relationship of her famous parents.
He is a director, the son of the head of a famous theater and a great womanizer, she is a beautiful young actress. Between them (as in a movie) a dizzying romance is tied up, and a daughter is born. And the director begins a painful life in two houses. But the author, Olga Simonova-Partan, does not write a melodrama, but the story of her childhood, delicately moving away from that vulnerable girl who, for the first years of her life, was Olenka for her father, and Yulenka for her mother (the parents could not agree!), And grew up in a strange , painfully happy, non-family atmosphere, because her beloved mom and dad, talented and passionate people, could not be together or apart — until the end of their days. The book captivates with a strict and clear style, charm and vigilance of the heroine, who respectfully accepts the difficult relationships of loved ones. Perhaps the secret of this even and gentle intonation lies in the distance. Temporal (a quarter of a century) and geographical — the book was written in America, far from my mother’s rivals and father’s friend-enemies, away from the Vakhtangov Theater, the epicenter of all bitter and joyful events.
PROZAIK, 320 p.