«Hello, It's Me!», «A Date with the Volga», «The Nature of the Beast»

Victor Gerasin’s audiobook of stories is a collection about our contemporaries and people of the Soviet era—residents of villages and country towns, ordinary people with complicated fates. Each story, narrated by professional reader K. Denisov, is filled with love for the homeland, respect for the mother, wife, and woman, and admiration for nature’s beauty.

V. Gerasin’s work is often compared to the stories of V. Shukshin because both wrote about the Russian village, about the simple workers of Russia’s deep countryside. Undoubtedly, Gerasin’s stories will interest all fans of Shukshin’s work—but they also have their own unique character. First, it’s a more complex composition; the author often uses the form of a story within a story. Second, as the author notes himself, it is influenced by F. M. Dostoevsky’s work and the use of one of the important themes for the writer of the 19th century—the connection of sin and holiness in one person.

“An Appointment with the Volga”
“The Newspaper”
“Alena Big”
“Local Time”
“The Essence of the Beast”
“Hello, it’s me!”
“Black Swamp”