One Night Awaits Us All

10 hrs. 41 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Shishkin

Narrator Valeria Lebedeva

Description

The novel “One Night for Everyone” is Mikhail Shishkin’s first major work, the winner of the “Russian Booker” Prize for “The Taking of Izmail” and the “National Bestseller” Prize for “The Venus Hair.” The hero of the novel, the landowner Larionov, writes memoirs, though he has no one to whom he can bequeath his “last notes”—he is alone. The reader will easily find hidden quotations from Lermontov and Dostoevsky in the memoirs of the provincial recluse, just as easily as references to the realities of Soviet and contemporary Russia. And all of this “building” of reminiscences is constructed for the author’s main idea: history—whether the war with Napoleon and the uprising of the Decembrists or the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and the dissident movement—is not only the backdrop of human existence, but its very essence, because private life and historical events, the past and the present cannot be separated—at least, in Russia…