Time to Embrace

The novel "Time to Embrace" is an engaging family saga that includes everything a reader loves: complex destinies, passions, separations, betrayals, the tragic blindness of loved ones, and their sudden revelations. But that's not all! It’s also a philosophical drama about the cost of life and death, how the past catches up and kills, as the title itself contains words from the Book of Ecclesiastes. This narrative is a hymn to family: to embraces, sentiments, the sweet trivialities of life, and devoted mutual love, its only unbreakable foundation. With gentle irony, the author tells the story of several generations of St. Petersburg intelligentsia, their touching care for "their circle" and the inevitable cultural education of children, their love for literature and music, and their rejection of rudeness. And this is also St. Petersburg - beautiful and beloved, encompassing the joys and sorrows of the novel's heroes, along with the eternally living verses of Pushkin and Akhmatova, woven into a long-long history.