The Time of Women
7 hrs. 16 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Elena Chizhova
Author
Elena Chizhova
Narrator
Leontina Brotskaya
Narrator
Leontina Brotskaya
Description
The fate of the novel’s main heroine is, in a sense, an ironic paraphrase of the theme from the folk film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears.” A quiet tenant, Antonina, is seduced by a stylish young man from St. Petersburg. She bears him a daughter and soon dies, entrusting the girl to three “former” old ladies from St. Petersburg—neighbors in a communal apartment: Ariadna, Glyceria, and Evdokia. And it is about them, about “that” life—fragile, gone, yet surprisingly real—that the story is told by the grown daughter of the heroine, a painter…
Elena Chizhova is a lifelong Petersburg native and author of five novels.
The Petersburg theme is a constant in her prose, shaping both the psychology and the characters of her heroes—more precisely, of her heroines, because Chizhova clearly favors women’s characters and women’s fates. Two of her novels—“Lavra” and “The Criminal Woman”—made it into the shortlist of the “Russian Booker” prize; the last one, “Time of Women,” received this prestigious award.
Elena Chizhova is a lifelong Petersburg native and author of five novels.
The Petersburg theme is a constant in her prose, shaping both the psychology and the characters of her heroes—more precisely, of her heroines, because Chizhova clearly favors women’s characters and women’s fates. Two of her novels—“Lavra” and “The Criminal Woman”—made it into the shortlist of the “Russian Booker” prize; the last one, “Time of Women,” received this prestigious award.
00:27
00_00_Vremya_zhenschin
02:32
00_01_Vremya_zhenschin
28:20
01_01_Mat
29:09
01_02_Mat
25:24
01_03_Mat
29:26
01_04_Mat
15:36
01_05_Mat
15:26
01_06_Mat
08:11
02_01_Doch
27:20
02_02_Doch
28:22
03_01_Mat
29:33
03_02_Mat
28:06
03_03_Mat
21:13
03_04_Mat
18:12
03_05_Mat
26:22
04_00_Glikeriya
16:25
05_00_Evdokiya
25:46
06_00_Otchim
31:02
07_00_Ariadna
17:16
08_00_Solomon
12:09
09_00_Vnuchka
