World Above the Abyss

10 hrs. 11 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Oleg Roy

Narrators Denis Nekrasov, Elena Chebaturkina

Narrator Denis Nekrasov

Narrator Elena Chebaturkina

Description

Is it possible to survive real grief? How to find the strength to go on living when the closest people are gone? The hero of Oleg Roy’s novel “The World Over the Abyss” found himself at the edge of a dark, gaping maw—so deep that the eye can’t reach its bottom, yet so tempting to step into to forget… Forget the lost wife, the lost daughter… The happiness of the past that will never return… Igor, the hero of the novel, lives in a world split in two. In the past—happiness, in the future… But is there a future when the familiar life collapses into the abyss?

Passing by a sculpture of a dog at one of the metro stations, Igor stops. They say that if you rub the dog’s nose and make a wish, it will come true immediately. People believe in this legend. The dog’s nose is rubbed yellow and gleams, visible from afar… Igor doesn’t believe in childish omens. But his hand reaches out anyway… Will fate give him a second chance? Will it let him overcome his fears and survive the inescapable grief? Will it allow him to step over pain? And what’s there—on the other side of the abyss?