The Hours

6 hrs. 40 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Michael Cunningham

Narrator Natalia Gracheva

Description

Michael Cunningham is a brilliant American prose writer. It was his novel "The Hours" that brought him the Pulitzer Prize and the degree of author of the best American novel of 1999. And in 2002, the film adaptation of "The Hours" with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep in the lead roles swept the screens around the world.

The novel’s main character is Cunningham’s inspiring and mystical "co-author": the famous English writer Virginia Woolf. Alongside her, as she writes her acclaimed novel "Mrs Dalloway" in the 1920s, "The Hours" also tells of Mrs. Brown reading this book in the middle of the century, and of Mrs. Dalloway living at the end of the 20th century in New York, whose fate is so similar to Clarissa’s from Woolf’s book. England of the 1920s and America of the 1990s—patriarchal Richmond, postwar Los Angeles, and supermodern New York. How is time arranged? How are books born? All of this is what "The Hours" is about.