A new novel, “Lazarus’s Women,” is an unusual family saga from the beginning of the century to our days. It’s a novel about great love and great lack of love. Lazare Lindt, a brilliant scientist—“an unlawful comet among numbered stars”—is the center of infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, wife of his older friend, will be loved by the funny young man—but not with son’s love; however, it will remain his secret. After the war in the closed city N, the star of Soviet science will fall head over heels for the young Galina and literally steal her into “another life,” but… he will earn only hatred. The third “woman of Lazarus” — his granddaughter, orphaned Lidochka—will inherit his brilliant nature.