Garden

“The Garden” is the new novel by Marina Stepnova, the author of the bestseller “Lazar Women” (the Big Book Prize), the novels “Surgeon”, “Bright Lane” and the collection “Somewhere near Grossationo”.

in the middle of the nineteenth century. The prince and Princess of Boryatinsky are born a late and no expected child - a girl who literally ruins a family, previously seemed ideal. Tusya from the very beginning is not like everyone else. In the strict framework of a society, complete conventions, when anyone primarily belongs to the genus, and not to itself, it behaves as absolutely - even an independent person. She makes decisions - when to be born and when to speak. How to behave, than to get carried away, whom to love or hate. The story of how difficult it is to be a free person in a non -free world.

“This is a novel that has grown out of Russian literature of the nineteenth century, but the era of decadence and the silver age seemed to step on his heels, and modernity leaves lights in the fields.”