Awakening

5 hrs. 35 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Gaito Gazdanov

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

One of the last novels by the émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov, “Awakening,” was first published in 1965. Pierre Forey, a modest accountant from Paris, finds his own life meaningless and uninteresting. But one day, in a country cottage belonging to his old school friend, he meets a creature—there is no other way to call her—a woman who lost her memory and her sanity during the war and has lived since then a vegetative existence. Driven by compassion, Pierre brings her to live with him at home—he wants to help her return to a normal life. Yet his own life also gains meaning…