A Stranger's Call

9 hrs. 3 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Ekaterina Markova

Narrator Vyacheslav Manylov

Description

The first book by the young Moscow writer Ekaterina Markova, “A Butterfly from Lake Michigan,” which includes travel essays about trips to Europe, Africa, and America, was published in 1979. “A Stranger’s Call” is the author’s second book. The collection includes novellas such as “The Ball,” “The Last Supper,” and others. These works are united into a concise idea-and-theme cycle built on the writer’s openly involved, actively restless position—she investigates the character of her contemporary woman. E. Markova shows the heroines of her novellas from various angles and life’s twists and turns, as though testing their strength, forcing them to make an urgent choice and decisions in situations charged with dynamism and sharpness.