The Man Who Loved Children
21 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Kristina Sted
Author
Kristina Sted
Narrator
Galina Shchukina
Narrator
Galina Shchukina
Description
In 2005, Time included the novel “The Man Who Loved Children” in its list of the 100 best books of the 20th century.
What happens if a teenage girl has to live with a tyrannical father, an hysterical stepmother, and five half-brothers and half-sisters? Murder.
Louie has it hard. She is the eldest, and much of the responsibility for the younger children falls on her shoulders. Her stepmother never stops talking: she screams, laments poverty, her husband, and life, while behind her words lie debts and dark secrets. Their father, meanwhile, lives in a fictional universe where he is a genius, where rain falls by his will, and where the Tree of Wishes grows in the yard. The adults argue endlessly, and their hatred inevitably falls on the children. Louie can no longer bear it. The day will come when she understands what step she must take.
“The Man Who Loved Children” is, in many ways, a confessional book by the Australian writer Christina Stead. Her mother died when Christina was only two years old. She idolized her father, but at the same time suffered from his domineering nature. With the appearance of her stepmother and half-siblings, family relations became even more painful. Stead transferred these adolescent experiences into the novel, entrusting it with her most intimate thoughts.
The novel “The Man Who Loved Children” will appeal to you if you were shocked by Pavel Sanaev’s “Buried Beneath the Basement Floor” and the series “Big Little Lies”.
What happens if a teenage girl has to live with a tyrannical father, an hysterical stepmother, and five half-brothers and half-sisters? Murder.
Louie has it hard. She is the eldest, and much of the responsibility for the younger children falls on her shoulders. Her stepmother never stops talking: she screams, laments poverty, her husband, and life, while behind her words lie debts and dark secrets. Their father, meanwhile, lives in a fictional universe where he is a genius, where rain falls by his will, and where the Tree of Wishes grows in the yard. The adults argue endlessly, and their hatred inevitably falls on the children. Louie can no longer bear it. The day will come when she understands what step she must take.
“The Man Who Loved Children” is, in many ways, a confessional book by the Australian writer Christina Stead. Her mother died when Christina was only two years old. She idolized her father, but at the same time suffered from his domineering nature. With the appearance of her stepmother and half-siblings, family relations became even more painful. Stead transferred these adolescent experiences into the novel, entrusting it with her most intimate thoughts.
The novel “The Man Who Loved Children” will appeal to you if you were shocked by Pavel Sanaev’s “Buried Beneath the Basement Floor” and the series “Big Little Lies”.
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