Love Delirium

7 hrs. 39 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alla Bossart

Narrator Natalya Karpunina

Description

Alla Bossart is a well-known prose writer and essayist. The stories told by her in this new book—criminal, communal, infernal—are about love as a kind of malady that strikes everyone: young and old, beauties and invalids, the homeless and oligarchs, priests and minor demons… Bossart accurately imitates this vanishing milieu—kitchen and vacation get-togethers where people talk about everything and everyone. Imagine: a dark southern night, a large company of random people, warmed by Crimean port wine and the nearness of a nudist beach, talking “about life and love.” Stories of what hurts most give way to polished anecdotes about mothers-in-law, friends, neighbors, classmates, acquaintances, and strangers. A man successful just yesterday suddenly finds himself at rock bottom; a woman has already bought a wedding dress, but… her chosen one does not even suspect she exists; a young husband suddenly discovers himself far from his own home… In a word, love delirium!