The Rain God

Maya Kucherskaya, author of a small book «The Modern Patericon», which became a major event (the Bunin Prize for 2006), in her new novel «God of Rain» «walked almost along a taut rope, never making a wrong step. She raised a problem that, in principle, cannot be solved—what to do with a feeling, deep and wonderful, if that feeling is nevertheless unlawful and unacceptable» (Maria Remizova). Rewriting anew her youthful novella about forbidden love, Maya Kucherskaya created a book that takes your breath away.