Once upon a time, there lived an old man and an old woman
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The novel “Once upon a time, there was an old man with an old woman”, according to the exact word of Maya, Kucheskaya, is a story about the fate of the Old Believers" family, abandoned at the beginning of the last century to the Ostseysky Territory, who had settled, surviving war from the blue sea, ruin, loss and still surviving, survivors. Saved by their own fidelity to the simplest, but the main values. ... This story captures from the first page and does not let go until the end of the novel. Live, sometimes comical, sometimes tragic types, “delicious” dialect, funny and accurate “family words", touching love and great Russian patience - all this immediately takes the soul. The book has a unique spirit of time, the living souls of the heroes and the living soul of the author, who seemed to observe all the ups and downs of the heroes of the novel with humor, love and pain. Beautiful language. Piercing clarity of being. The continuity of the genus and memory is all that the real reader is longing for now ... ”(Dina Rubina)
Long list Big Book (2011), Yasnaya Polyana (2011), a prize winner in the nomination Modern Classic (2011)
Long list Big Book (2011), Yasnaya Polyana (2011), a prize winner in the nomination Modern Classic (2011)
Author:
Author:Katishonok Elena Aleksandrovna
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9691-2252-9
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