Sides of the Brush

“In the middle of the faceless gray-black crowd, he walked. In a billowing, unbuttoned brown plaid coat, in a hat, and a burgundy long scarf, carelessly wrapped around his neck. He didn’t hurry. Everyone around him was rushing—nervously running, afraid to be late—and someone was already late but kept running anyway. And he was walking with his hands in his pockets, as if strolling through the Champs-Élysées or the Luxembourg Garden after a wonderful dinner.

Gray eyes among scattered shallow wrinkles, a two-week beard, sharp cheekbones...

Elya always perceived older men as huge ancient pirate ships. Sturdy, well-made, surrounded by fogs, secrets, and dangers—but that’s also what makes them so alluring.”

Love, resembling a dream or an obsession. Painful passion on the edge of addiction. Vicious secrets and forbidden art. As old as the world—an old story of a student and a professor—will play out with new colors in Yekaterina Irtegeova’s novella “Sides of the Brush.” For the first time, the complete version of the work is published with a new, unexpected ending. The audiobook is filled with the sounds of spring wind, summer heat, autumn rain, the noise of Paris streets and St. Petersburg avenues—and the music creates an incredible atmosphere.