Orlanda

9 hrs. 43 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Jacqueline Harpman

Narrator Yury Zaborovsky

Description

Who hasn’t, at least once in life, dreamed of being someone else? The heroine of the novel, Alina—a prosperous and, as it seemed, fully successful thirty-five-year-old woman—could never have imagined that one day something incredible would happen to her. Preparing for a lecture, she rereads Virginia Woolf’s «Orlando», and at that time—against her will—half of her «self» moves into a young man sitting at the next table in a café. This second half (the author gives her the name Orlando) begins to live its own life—one that the heroine denied herself due to strict upbringing and natural prudence…