The Far Side of the Moon

3 hrs. 37 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Pyotr Aleshkovsky

Narrator Pyotr Aleshkovsky

Description

“What is ‘the far side of the Moon’? I think everyone imagines it in their own way, more or less. It is the side you cannot easily see. It is the life that exists beside us, but to which we do not always pay attention. Or do not pay attention at all. That is how this book about Balakhonye came into being. What is Balakhonye? Well, it is the far side of the Moon. It is some place, probably in the southern regions of Russia, where there is wheat, where people settled in the 18th century, lived in the 19th, and still live now. And, of course, Balakhonye is very different for me personally from my own town of Stargorod, which lies in the forests, in the north, and gravitates toward our ancient archaeological history. In Balakhonye everything, at first glance, is closer to modernity, but only at first…”

Contents:

1. Preface
2. Little Dog
3. Fate
4. Incubi and Succubi
5. Achkhut
6. Fatal
7. Three Shadows
8. Honey and Milk
9. Birthday
10. Bitch
11. The Last of the Molokans
12. Friday, March 13
13. The Far Side of the Moon
14. The Secret of Longevity
15. The Pilot
16. Little Horse
17. Witch
18. Balakhon Wedding
19. White She-Wolf
20. Fools and Roads
21. Yushka
22. Poplar
23. Kangura