Feet Off the Ground
7 hrs. 7 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Mikhail Turbin
Author
Mikhail Turbin
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Description
A tragic story about a talented doctor who lost his loved ones. He didn’t break—he kept fighting for fragile lives—but one day a boy is brought into the hospital who looks exactly like his son…
Mikhail Turbin was born in 1986 in Veliky Novgorod. His work has been published in journals “Volga,” “Znamya,” “Etazhi,” and in the short story collection “Happiness—What a Thing!” He is a laureate of the journal “Znamya” and the award for young writers “Litsey-2022.”
Ilya Rudnev is a talented doctor of pediatric intensive care. He fights stubbornly, sometimes with no hope of success, for fragile lives. It isn’t just a job—death has personal accounts with Rudnev. A year ago, on the same day, he lost his wife and his son. Rudnev tries to escape into his work, to surface from the feeling of guilt—and it almost works. But then an ambulance brings a boy to the hospital who looks, like two drops of water, like the deceased son.
“This novel is a perceptive and accurate diagnosis of modern Russia, written compellingly and vividly, with great love for its characters—and for us, for people.”
May a Kucherkskaya
“Here is a deeply humane, tragic book full of love for one small private life. That is exactly the kind of literature we need right now.”
Grigory Sluzhitel’
“Brilliantly written, terrifying, and captivating.”
Marina Stepanova
Mikhail Turbin was born in 1986 in Veliky Novgorod. His work has been published in journals “Volga,” “Znamya,” “Etazhi,” and in the short story collection “Happiness—What a Thing!” He is a laureate of the journal “Znamya” and the award for young writers “Litsey-2022.”
Ilya Rudnev is a talented doctor of pediatric intensive care. He fights stubbornly, sometimes with no hope of success, for fragile lives. It isn’t just a job—death has personal accounts with Rudnev. A year ago, on the same day, he lost his wife and his son. Rudnev tries to escape into his work, to surface from the feeling of guilt—and it almost works. But then an ambulance brings a boy to the hospital who looks, like two drops of water, like the deceased son.
“This novel is a perceptive and accurate diagnosis of modern Russia, written compellingly and vividly, with great love for its characters—and for us, for people.”
May a Kucherkskaya
“Here is a deeply humane, tragic book full of love for one small private life. That is exactly the kind of literature we need right now.”
Grigory Sluzhitel’
“Brilliantly written, terrifying, and captivating.”
Marina Stepanova
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