Winter's Tale

22 hrs. 14 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mark Helprin

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

“Winter’s Tale” is the cornerstone of New York magical realism: a love story capable of turning back time and reviving the dead. You will see a cloudlike wall blending eras and peoples, and the mythical lake of Koquirais; you’ll meet a white horse that can fly, and a beautiful daughter of a newspaper magnate forced, in the frost, to spend the night on a rooftop—with the leader of a street gang dreaming of putting all the gold of dawn in his pocket, and with a building engineer who, from century to century, keeps erecting a staircase into the sky...

Mark Helprin’s “Winter’s Tale” is “capitalist fantasy”—a fairytale family saga spanning an entire century, depicting the wintry fantastic New York of the early and late decades of the 20th century. An Irish robber and the daughter of a newspaper magnate. Love that begins with a crime, survives suffering, and manages to turn time back. In 2014, on Valentine’s Day, the novel was adapted for film under the title “Love Through Time.”