A lively, endlessly musical Odessa family—along with an Alma-Ata family of hidden, silent wanderers… For a century, they are connected only by a thin thread of bird lineage: the brilliant canary maestro Zheltukhin and his descendants.
At the end of the 20th century, their chaotic story settles into bittersweet and sweet memories, and new people are born—among them “the last by time Ettinger,” who is destined for an astonishing and sometimes suspicious fate.
“Zheltukhin” is the first book of Dina Rubina’s trilogy “The Russian Canary”—a colorful, turbulent, many-faced family saga…