The Wayside Stop

8 hrs. 39 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Sergey Kozlov

Narrator Olga Pletnyova

Description

This book is easy to read. Just get a little closer to its heroes, and the seemingly unhurried stream of their lives—slow at first glance—sweeps the reader along and carries you from one event to another. But it’s hard to step out of such a current. It’s hard to read this book. And if someone dares to become friends with an old warrior who, beyond the threshold of death, received a special calling—to speak to people in the voice of their conscience… if someone dares with a sixteen-year-old hero to jump from a train at an ordinary Siberian platform… if someone looks into the eyes of a girl begging for alms on Christmas night… then more than once they’ll have to hurt themselves on the stones of the harshest questions of our time. But if you stay with the heroes of this book to the very end, its current may carry you too to the shore of joy and pain—the pain you would be afraid to lose, and joy mixed with sorrow.

Approved for distribution by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.