Invasion. Yakovleva Yu.

Burmin, a veteran of the First Russian War with Napoleon and the battle of Austerlitz in 1805, returns from there not quite what he was. The young landowner begins to torment strange attacks: the sense of smell exacerbates, the body stops obeying, and then unconsciousness should be. He spends years in solitude, hiding his transformation. A random meeting with its former love awakens an old feeling in him - and Burmin returns to the light. It seemed in Smolensk society that nothing has changed, but the vague foreboding of the threatening war hung in the air: everyone is talking about it, but they do not know that it is already on the threshold.

in the book of Yulia Yakovleva masterfully rethinks the tradition of Russian prose of the 19th century , combining a big Russian novel and a fantastic thriller. The world of 1812 presented by her - “The world is still hidden, but terrible social tension in society. Someone will squeeze the serfdom, someone-the norms of generally accepted decency. The war will release this tension out and show who is who really is. ”