The Russian Hare

This book is about Russians. About Russian people. About the Russian special-forces officer Sergey Rusakov who went through the hell of Chechnya; about a Russian girl from an orphanage who was just about to be sold—“by the aliks and dzhabrailys”—to a Turkish brothel; about a Russian priest who drank too much and became a true martyr for the faith; about Russian grandmother Polina, who saved herself for her only “Vasen’ka,” killed in the faraway Great Patriotic War… And about many other Russian people who have had to live through the 21st century since the birth of Christ. Perhaps this book is needed for Russians. It’s a book about Love… About that very ringing, purest love. About love that is always here and will always be. About the kind of love whose ideal people search for and can’t find.