Glad, Almost Happy...

12 hrs. 1 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Olga Pokrovskaya

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

“Glad, almost happy…”—a book for those who, tired of the suffocating atmosphere of the megacity with its concrete roads and career staircases, long for sincerity and beauty.
The novel is dedicated to our contemporaries who didn’t accept the consumer value system and stayed on the side of humanity and kindness. The main character is Ivan—a young man gifted with emotional sensitivity—who defends his independence from the template. Without arguments and struggle, with his very way of living, he strives to preserve the right not to participate in the Fuss. His calling is sympathetic warmth toward people, animals, nature, and small moments of life. However, by society’s standards, he is a failure—someone who’s missed all the trains. Even the closest people demand that he reassess his values…
A lack of kindness is the trouble of today’s literature. In Olga Pokrovskaya’s book, kindness is present—as is the aching feeling of love for the world with all its imperfections, and a dramatic search for harmony. The author’s fresh, poetic language allows the reader to fully dissolve into the novel’s world—to smell the aroma of coffee and toast, to feel wet snow on their cheeks, and to freeze, stunned, alongside the hero at the appearance of the first spring thaw.