Laurel

Evgeny Vodolazkin is a philologist, specialist in ancient Russian literature, author of the novels-Bestseller “Soloviev and Larionov”, “Aviator” and “Brisben”, collections “House and Island, or Language Instrument” and “Seeing Slokingly. Between literature and life. ”
The hero of the novel“ Lavr ”is a medieval doctor. Possessing the gift of a healer, he nevertheless cannot save his beloved and decides to go the earthly path instead of her. So, life turns into life. He nurses plague and wounded, wretched and weak, and the more he sacrifices himself, the more obvious his gift is stronger. But is it possible to save the human soul with love and victims, unable to protect its earth shell?
The novel “Lavr” was awarded the “Big Book” and “Yasnaya Polyana”.
The rare combination of postmodern game and transparent, classical traditional, dry academic competence and warm wise irony makes a “laurel”, a book, a book, a book, Which I want to carry with you, opening and re -read in random places (Galina Yuzefovich)
“Lavr” - a novel about love in her deepest understanding. But to the same extent, this is a novel about time. More precisely about the absence of time, its overcoming through familiarization with eternity (“New Gazeta”)
A novel about a person’s direct connection with God, exciting a detective about the nature of time, a biography of a person who is trying to get out of time ... Here the question asked in old-aged, may follow the answer in today"s official slang, So different eras are equivalent to the one who looks from above.
“Lavr” is stylistically flawless, after it any fixing seems strained (Ksenia Rozhdestvenskaya, “GQ”)