The Monastery

14 hrs. 47 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Zakhar Prilepin

Narrator Elizaveta Krupina

Description

Zakhar Prilepin is a prose writer, publicist, and musician—recipient of the “National Bestseller,” “SuperNationalBestseller,” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards… He gained fame through novels "Pathologies" (about the war in Chechnya) and "Sanya" (about young national Bolsheviks), as well as “guy” stories—"Sin" and "Shoes Full of Hot Vodka." In his new novel "Obitel" the writer turns to another time and other experience.
Solovki, the end of the twenties. A broad canvas of Bosch-like scope, with dozens of characters, clear traces of the past and glints of a stormy future—and an entire life compressed into one autumn. A young man of twenty-seven years finds himself in a camp. Majestic nature—and a tangle of human destinies, where it’s impossible to tell executioners from victims. A tragic story of one love—and the story of the whole country with its pain, blood, and hatred, reflected in the Solovetsky island like in a mirror.

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