Awakening

A rare illness erased sixteen and a half years from the life of Aleksey Karpuntsov. In the distant, foggy past remained his parents, his wife with a tiny son, his brother and sister. The world radically changed, and so did his loved ones. So what place does Aleksey have in these new circumstances? Will his return shatter the established life of his relatives? Before the reader’s eyes, a chain of destinies passes by—those close to Aleksey and those who come across him by chance or because of official duties. And each person’s life is refracted through Karpuntsov’s “second coming”…