The Great Dream

12 hrs. 37 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Andrey Rubanov

Narrator Vladimir Soldatov

“The Great Dream” is an honest account of a person who went through the chaos of the nineties and tries, in the calmer two-thousands, to find their place in life. An intellectual who dreamed of writing suddenly finds himself among criminals, where each day— not figuratively, but genuinely— requires defending the right to live. He reflects on fate in the new Russia, fiercely argues with his second “self”—the phantom voice of a dead friend—and learns to exist in a world where only the threat of death remains unchanged. It’s a story about bitter disappointment, about losing trust in people, and about attempts to regain it. Whether it worked is up to the reader. The author is sure he did—or at least did everything possible for it.

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