Jeanne's Secret
9 hrs. 18 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Sophie Astrabi
Author
Sophie Astrabi
Narrator
Lyubov Koneva
Narrator
Lyubov Kuznetsova
Narrator
Alya Utdinova
Description
For seventeen years, Alex had lived on the basis of someone else’s retelling of her family’s story. One phone call from a notary— and her reality falls apart. She was sure her father had died many years ago; in fact, he died only today. Why had her mother been hiding the truth for so long?
In search of answers, Alex comes to her grandmother’s home— to a sealed-up room, to a painting with a tangled fate, and to diaries that no one was supposed to read. Step by step, she understands: secrets are not always kept out of shame—sometimes they are hidden by a desperate desire to protect the people you love.
Sofi Astrabi’s new novel is a delicate “restoration” of a family portrait, where faces had been deliberately painted over. The author intertwines the lives of three women from different eras— from an anxious prewar Paris through the French province of the seventies to today. This is how a love saga forms— one that turned out to be stronger than oblivion.
In search of answers, Alex comes to her grandmother’s home— to a sealed-up room, to a painting with a tangled fate, and to diaries that no one was supposed to read. Step by step, she understands: secrets are not always kept out of shame—sometimes they are hidden by a desperate desire to protect the people you love.
Sofi Astrabi’s new novel is a delicate “restoration” of a family portrait, where faces had been deliberately painted over. The author intertwines the lives of three women from different eras— from an anxious prewar Paris through the French province of the seventies to today. This is how a love saga forms— one that turned out to be stronger than oblivion.
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