Light Beyond the Clouds

Yvetta and Adamys live in a Cloud World and have never seen the sun. Unexpectedly, strange beings appear in their world—the Shopkeeper, the Highlander, and the Preacher. Of course, these are not people: the spirits of all kinds of attachments, besides the divine love of agape, visited the Cloud World. Will Adamys and Yvetta be able to resist the spirits of this age and give birth within themselves to divine love?

“All genres are good except the boring ones”—a famous saying by A. S. Pushkin, referring to works of any genre. I think the novella “Light beyond the Clouds” will delight the reader with its lack of boredom. It is a story about love. And its main advantage is that it is written with enviable love. That is why there is no room for boredom on its pages.

Is it fantasy? Or a fairy tale novella? It’s hard to answer these questions. Even to the point that elements of realism are present in the novella. Therefore, the genre in this case is difficult to define. And like in a fairy tale, the plot of the novella balances on a thin line between the real and the unreal. It seems as if the authors use the motive of the biblical story about Adam and Eve, about their original sin. The romance of pure, otherworldly love of the heroes becomes simpler when they taste forbidden fruit. They do not stop loving each other, but their love becomes ordinary, earthly.

The novella is moderately filled with the beauties of nature. These beauties accompany the heroes throughout their lives, starting from their youth and adolescence. Another merit is its non-preachy aphoristic nature, skillfully embedded into the text, which gives the novella a philosophical direction.