What Was Her Name Again?

5 hrs. 7 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alexander Snegirev

Narrator Lora Luganskaya

Description

Once, he rented a room from a lonely elderly lady. She grew attached to him, started dressing up, bought him a camera— and soon began insisting on closeness. He wanted to escape, but, yielding to her pleas, he stayed. They became friends. And then he fell in love with a girl… Years passed; he clearly remembers the old woman’s name—because her involvement helped his career succeed. But he can’t remember the name of the woman he once loved—because with her, happiness left his life.

In the story “What Was Her Name Again...,” as in the other stories of A. Snegiryov’s new book, you won’t find heroes and villains, good and bad, denunciations and verdicts. Here, chance becomes fate; the temporary becomes eternal; everywhere reigns a piercing sense of drama in life and the defenselessness of love.