A Possible Life
13 hrs. 51 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Sebastian Faulks
Author
Sebastian Faulks
Narrator
Oleg Isaev
Narrator
Oleg Isaev
Description
It happens that a person we’ve never met—or a place we’ve never been—suddenly seems strangely familiar. Reason tells us it can’t be possible. But the heart insists.
Sometimes, when we almost believe that our lives aren’t meaningless, a stupid accident shuffles the cards and breaks the plot. And sometimes the same accident makes us feel the presence of a miracle and understand our calling.
This is what the new book by British writer Sebastian Faulkes is about—the author of the world bestseller “And the Birds Sang…” Five novellas, connected in a sort of symphony, tell the stories of five different fates. The novel’s characters live in different eras and belong to different circles of society. Joining the fighters of the French Resistance, the English philologist Jeff Talbot has no idea what awaits him in the hell of a German concentration camp. Billy, a ragged London kid, ends up in a Victorian workhouse, but then “makes it in life.” At the end of the 21st century, Italian neurologist Elena Duranti makes a world-scale discovery, proving that the human “self” is physical. Dark peasant girl Jeanne from a French village—within the Napoleonic era—lives imprisoned by medieval prejudices. Brilliant Anya King, a writer and performer of folk-style songs, causes a sensation in 1960s America… But where does Elena get a Madonna figurine that once belonged to Jeanne? What is the mysterious source from which Anya draws her piercing images? And by what unfathomable paths does her beloved, Jack the rock guitarist, end up in the old Victorian workhouse at just the right time?
Sometimes, when we almost believe that our lives aren’t meaningless, a stupid accident shuffles the cards and breaks the plot. And sometimes the same accident makes us feel the presence of a miracle and understand our calling.
This is what the new book by British writer Sebastian Faulkes is about—the author of the world bestseller “And the Birds Sang…” Five novellas, connected in a sort of symphony, tell the stories of five different fates. The novel’s characters live in different eras and belong to different circles of society. Joining the fighters of the French Resistance, the English philologist Jeff Talbot has no idea what awaits him in the hell of a German concentration camp. Billy, a ragged London kid, ends up in a Victorian workhouse, but then “makes it in life.” At the end of the 21st century, Italian neurologist Elena Duranti makes a world-scale discovery, proving that the human “self” is physical. Dark peasant girl Jeanne from a French village—within the Napoleonic era—lives imprisoned by medieval prejudices. Brilliant Anya King, a writer and performer of folk-style songs, causes a sensation in 1960s America… But where does Elena get a Madonna figurine that once belonged to Jeanne? What is the mysterious source from which Anya draws her piercing images? And by what unfathomable paths does her beloved, Jack the rock guitarist, end up in the old Victorian workhouse at just the right time?
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