One of the strongest works of Valentin Rasputin.
A work in which he reveals many secrets and riddles of a truly folk, rustic Russian soul, so incomprehensible and attractive …
The old woman Anna dies.
A son, daughters and son -in -law, grandchildren and acquaintances gathered at her bed.
They drink and grieve, and suddenly they fall into a desperate, terrible fun for a short time, and again drink and cry, and remember, remember – excitedly, desperately …
The memory of the mother turns for everyone into memory of himself, about his own childhood and youth, of hopes and dreams, who have come true or broken into fragments.
“How to live now?” – The question that each of those present at the deathbed Anna is asking himself.
And what is she thinking at her last hour? ..
Author
Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich
Publisher
AST, 2014
Series
Russian classics
12+
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