A dry heart. Gurna A.

1970s, Zanzibar forgets about the recent conflict, the time of change begins. Salim's father left his family and fenced off his son with icy silence. His mother began to see another man and gave birth to a daughter. Silence gave rise to a feeling of deception, and underless questions remained unanswered. With the load of family secrets, the pain of rejection and the hope of seeing the big world, Salim goes to London to get an education and return the debt that he does not yet know about.

Nobel laureate novel in literature - for the first time in Russian.