The classic work by K. G. Paustovsky in audio format!
Long ago, an old Parisian sweeper, year after year, collected the dust he swept from jewelry workshops. One day, the gathered precious gold grains were enough for a wonderful rose—a gift for a woman he had known since childhood.
This piercing story struck Paustovsky as similar to the writer’s own labor—because it, too, brings forth something beautiful from dust of encounters and partings, from wanderings and journeys, from other people’s faces and stories.
This is how “The Golden Rose” begins—a remarkable and stylistically unmatched work in Russian literature, deeply original, in which autobiographical motives blend easily and naturally with fictionalized biography and essayistic— with philosophical elements.