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A novel about strong feelings and complicated women’s fates at turning points in the history of Russia and the world in the 20th century.
Veronika and Ksenia are nothing alike. One is a nurse saving lives during the First World War. The other ends up in captivity by the Tuaregs during an archaeological expedition. But the same person became a huge event in the life of each of them. Both girls lived long lives without breaking under the onslaught of the “wolf-dog era”: they went through two world wars, revolution, civil war, Stalin’s camps, and Hitler’s fascism. And it all because Love lived in their hearts—a vast, undefeated feeling that knows no borders and no time.
“The King of Alder” brings us back to the stories of the heroines from “Veronika’s Nets” and “The Sand Rose,” stories that touched readers’ hearts. The novel covers the first half of the 20th century—a time full of contrasts, shocks, and dramatic events.
Anna Berseneva is a writer, a candidate of philological sciences, a literary scholar, a laureate of the Bunin Prize (2011) and the Ernest Hemingway Prize (2024). 15 of Berseneva’s novels have been adapted for film/TV, and the total circulation of the author is 5,000,000 copies! Actress Olga Ostroumova noted: “Anna Berseneva’s heroes force you to look into yourself, to find in the depths of the subconscious difficult traits of your own character. And that is very good! Because the more you have to think about a book and the more complex internal work it triggers, the more interesting it becomes.” The moving story about Veronika’s and Ksenia’s fates was brought to life by actress Maria Orlova.