The Secret of Cleopatra

5 hrs. 50 min.

Author Leonid Golovnyov

Narrator Elizaveta Krupina

Description

Leonid Golovnev’s new novel «The Secret of Cleopatra» (journal «SM Detectives») is about the fate of a woman whose character contains mutually exclusive qualities—yet she lives with them, as she knows how. The novel’s theme is unusual and poetic; it also includes landscape descriptions, references to Sasha Cherny and Lermontov. This gives the text a second layer. Cleopatra’s revenge for her broken destiny manifested itself in the fact that she flooded the country with drugs. And then this revenge struck back with a cruel boomerang—at herself and at those dear to her. Leonid Golovnev knows for certain that the time of retribution for people like her will surely come. Why is the author interested in the heroine? The answer to this question isn’t as simple as it seems.