Constellation of the Hounds

Almost cut off from the outside world, high in the mountains in a secluded observatory lives an international team of astronomers — and it takes them a while to realize that a nightmare of civil war has come to the country that has given them refuge... The shared story connects the fates of representatives of three generations of men and women — a Decembrist and the daughter of the keeper of an old lighthouse, a young naval officer of the Russian Empire and an elderly married couple, an artist and a charming Finnish girl… In search of a vanished diary, a silent journalist, an energetic captain, and a strong-willed writer travel through the Caucasus and the Black Sea and find themselves in a tangled and fascinating adventure... “Constellation of the Hounds,” “Northern Tale,” and “Glistening Clouds” — three tales by Paustovsky, stylistically very different, but equally marked by an astonishing sense of language and vivid imagery from one of the most talented Russian writers of the 20th century.