The Loop and the Stone on the Green Grass

20 hrs. 34 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Authors Arkady Vayner, Georgy Vainer

Author Arkady Vayner

Author Georgy Vainer

Narrator Yuliya Tarkhova

Description

In the work of Arkady and Georgy Vayner, the novel “The Loop and the Stone in Green Grass” occupies a special place. It was created in 1974–1975, in the darkest years of stagnation (for the first time it was possible to publish it only in 1990). The Vainers took a risk by combining in the book two of the most forbidden topics: crimes by the “organs” that went unpunished, and the “Jewish question.”

Beautiful Sulamith leads the ordinary life of a Soviet office worker; she studies the work of the Jewish poet Bialik. Her beloved Alyosha is a mid-level writer, the son of a once-important official from the all-powerful KGB. Both have their own secrets and sorrows. The destinies of their families intertwine in the most surprising way. The novel contains both a tragic love story and an exciting investigation with chases and discoveries. All these events unfold against a backdrop of gray everyday life and boundless lies. Ugly reality—though in a relatively “vegetarian” time—kills any living life, everyone who in one way or another doesn’t fit into the bleak Soviet standards and wants the impermissible: freedom…