In Half

9 hrs. 47 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Masha Traub

Narrator Irina Patrakova

Description

Masha Traub has a rare talent: to convey the characters’ feelings so that the reader experiences them too, empathizes with them, and tries to understand them—even when they think differently. “Half and Half” is a novel about people who really wanted to love, but couldn’t, because nobody taught them how. Anna and Georgiy married out of despair—just because, in the end, you have to find someone. But they never became close people—not even to the point that Georgiy didn’t tell his wife that he grew up in an orphanage. After the divorce, Anna suggested splitting the children: Anton stays with his father, the younger daughter Yulka stays with her mother. Nobody thought about what the children would feel. Adults, burned by their own pain, were unable to protect the children from pain. But fortunately, children are often wiser than their parents.