Elena

Another witty, smart and refined novel from the popular author of The Diary of a New Russian. The story about young girls growing up is written with all the honesty, humor and deep insight Yelena Kolina is known for.

Elena Chizhova, avtor bestsellera "Vremi͡a zhenshchin", romanov "Kroshki T͡Sakhes", "Lavra" i "Polukrovka", neizmenno vybiraet glavnym geroem i͡arkui͡u nezauri͡adnui͡u zhenshchinu. Tatʹi͡ana, geroini͡a romana "Terrakotovai͡a starukha", byvshiĭ vuzovskiĭ prepodavatelʹ, vidit okruzhai͡ushchiĭ mir skvozʹ prizmu velikoĭ russkoĭ literatury, no rezko meni͡aet svoi͡u zhiznʹ: ustraivaetsi͡a menedzherom v firmu uspeshnogo predprinimateli͡a,...

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The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...

Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.

After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the USSR and all of Europe is faced with an even greater threat a steam explosion that would eject radioactive material over the entire continent. Firefighter Alexey volunteers for what seems like a suicide mission: manually drain the plant's reservoir before the melting reactor collapses. With time running out, this team of ordinary citizens turned heroes must use all their strength and bravery...

Several years after their son's disappearance, a grieving couple adopts a feral boy, who eerily begins to resemble their Vania more with each passing day. While the wife believes they have found their son, her husband is certain that Vania died. As strange accidents begin happening around the boy, the pair soon has cause to wonder whether they may have adopted something not entirely human.

Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff split to find them a safer hospital. Soldiers take over the asylum, and then, a young female patient falls in love with a soldier, which leaves her boyfriend in a lurch.

Young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown close in a household their father abandoned. But when they least expect it, the man the boys have never known returns. Eager and bewildered, Andrei and Ivan join this mysterious stranger for a week long fishing trip. As they travel deeper into the Russian wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp, turning into a violent test of wills.