An American Story

7 hrs. 59 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alessandro Baricco

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

Today Italian writer Alessandro Baricco is one of Europe’s most interesting novelists. His refined books, reminiscent of both parables, thrillers, and prose poems, have already been translated into dozens of languages and formed the basis for stage performances and films.

In this edition, you are presented with the novel "A Kind of History," where the history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century intertwines with the personal history of the hero—a skinny boy with a golden shadow and a strange name, Last—who grew up to become a passionate race-car driver in love with roads. A familiar bend in a highway appears to him in the wrinkles on an old man’s forehead, in the line of women’s shoulders. After all, "this isn’t a road, it’s an entire life," where you so want to rush forward without thinking—but sometimes it’s also important to know how to turn.