The Boy Who Fell to Earth

9 hrs. 40 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Kathy Lette

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Kathy Lette’s new novel is as sorrowful and funny as life itself. A happy London couple welcomes a handsome son, and soon doctors brand him with the frightening label “autist.” And the happy London couple stops being happy—and soon stops being a couple. The heroine finds herself alone with an original and astonishing child, living with whom becomes a true test—terrible and funny at the same time. The dreams of a poor woman are shattered, her career derailed forever, the household has gone to ruin, and sex becomes a distant memory. Welcome to the Land of ghastly and funny wonders! In desperation, the heroine wanders through it, stumbles into Looking-Glass—and almost comes to terms… And just then, in her hopeless life, appears a disgusting in every way yet equally ideal man, and after him—her husband, who had seemingly disappeared. And then she realizes that everything her incredible son does is nothing compared to the antics of normal adults. This book is about the fact that every person has their own unique syndrome. “We’re all mad here,” wrote Lewis Carroll. And it’s true: like mad people, we all want the same thing—love, freedom, and reasons to wake up in the morning. We want there to be always reasons to laugh and rejoice. Kathy Lette managed to write a comically anecdotal novel about events people usually turn into tearful drama.