Handel's Law
12 hrs. 5 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Darya Tsivina
Author
Darya Tsivina
Narrator
Mikhail Lukashov
Narrator
Mikhail Lukashov
Description
“Everyone is given the right to return to themselves: to see themselves clearly, to acknowledge and accept, to learn how to love”—this is the personal Law of Return that the heroine of this novel formulates, drawing on what she has heard from Israel. And from a conversation with the consular official Yakov Gendel, who once remarked: “There’s still a little problem: you were born out of wedlock.” The “little problem” really exists—only not at all in that. The daughter goes to Not-the-Right Guy. The mother—back to the Country, to herself, to Grandma Yulia Alfredovna, whose papers Gendel was sifting through. The son—toward reassembling his attitude to what happened many years ago on the school hill. The husband—back to himself, alone at a Russian dacha. Darya Tsivina writes lush, ironic, direct prose about how, once someone has upended their life and moved on, they pass through every kind of return—back to language, to loss, to their children, to their former “self.” And that the boomerang is inevitably going to come back—sometimes right into the temple.
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