This is not just an ordinary love story, but vivid images that live their own complicated lives—touching you to the depths of the soul, provoking sympathy or rejection, joy or bitterness, and sometimes even a desire to get into the book and change something in it.
Scarlett is a woman of the new time. She is enchanting, yet at the same time selfish and greedy. Why do men find the morally negative traits of such a beautiful woman even more alluring remains a mystery—one you could discuss endlessly. But exactly that mystery is hidden in Scarlett’s image, who became an ideal for many thousands… Her opposite is Melanie. A quiet gray mouse who knows how to love and be a friend. There is nothing in her—no brightness, no desperation, no charm. Yet it is her Ashley loves—who, in turn, is loved by Scarlett. The classic theme of a love triangle is portrayed vividly and with emotional strain. The novel’s events unfold in a difficult time, when the struggle to survive and to live comfortably becomes a given reality. Scarlett is a strong woman who knows what she wants and how to achieve it. But she fails to become happy…