Before the Mirror
12 hrs. 53 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Veniamin Kaverin
Author
Veniamin Kaverin
Narrator
Tatyana Telegina
Narrator
Tatyana Telegina
Description
The novel “Before the Mirror” was written by Kaverin at the age of seventy, and it is often regarded as his best book.
… It all began at a high school ball: amid confetti, streamers, and thunder of music, serious Kostya Karnovsky and charming Liza Turaeva met and danced together all evening. Over the next twenty years, fate rarely brought them together—yet all that time Liza wrote to Karnovsky: her not exactly a friend, not exactly a lover. Those were wonderful letters—funny, tender, and philosophical—from Perm, from Petrograd—Saint Petersburg—, Yalta, Constantinople, and Paris, where the girl bravely went to study painting… Will Karnovsky and Liza finally be together? Will Turaeva win recognition as an artist? Will she return to her homeland? And what will become of the heroes, whose youth passed in pre-revolutionary Russia, now “at the crossroads of times”…?
… It all began at a high school ball: amid confetti, streamers, and thunder of music, serious Kostya Karnovsky and charming Liza Turaeva met and danced together all evening. Over the next twenty years, fate rarely brought them together—yet all that time Liza wrote to Karnovsky: her not exactly a friend, not exactly a lover. Those were wonderful letters—funny, tender, and philosophical—from Perm, from Petrograd—Saint Petersburg—, Yalta, Constantinople, and Paris, where the girl bravely went to study painting… Will Karnovsky and Liza finally be together? Will Turaeva win recognition as an artist? Will she return to her homeland? And what will become of the heroes, whose youth passed in pre-revolutionary Russia, now “at the crossroads of times”…?
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