The Theater of Melting Shadows. The End of an Era

Anna grew up in a noble family in a house on Bolshaya Morskaya. She leaves with her family to her mother's estate by the sea to experience the turbulent times of the Civil War. She faces a long journey to freedom in the most unfree time, a journey to herself through the unfreedom of traditions, conventions, and the horror of bloody war. The revolution, the fierce confrontation between the Bolsheviks and the White Guards, the change of power, Petrograd, Crimea, Berlin, a fragile young woman, her daughters, her husband’s wayward nephew, an improper, untimely love, and a small wolf cub… For the reader, who knows everything that will happen to the country thereafter, there is only the concern for Anna, whether she will survive in this changing world suddenly turned into a theater of melting shadows. The new novel by Elena Afanasyeva, whom Boris Akunin called a Perec-Reverte, having perfectly mastered the Russian language.