The Return

"The novel "The Return" combines several genres and themes; it is rich in stylistic diversity, as rich as life itself. In this novel, life is caressed by poetry and scorched by fire, it offers passions and darkens with sorrow; it... contains both the wisdom of old age and the insatiability of youth. Ordinary events, like simple relationships, are absent in the novel. Look closely at each phenomenon, and it will reveal itself in all its depth, beauty, and mystery. The author and the reader move together through the complex intertwining of events and time, alternately doubting, making discoveries, making mistakes, contemplating, unraveling mysteries and secrets, sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden. As often happens in real life. The same characters are at times simple and predictable, at other times incomprehensible, mysterious, and unattainable, yet always convincing and interesting. "The Return" is one of the rare works from which the reader emerges changed. The text will seem light and understandable to an inexperienced reader. However, the experienced reader will face the multidimensionality and complexity of life, the power and immortality of love, the secret mechanisms of relationship formation, the winding paths of personal development, the unfathomable ways of seeking beauty and harmony, and the hidden reasons for loyalty and betrayal." Alexander Melikhov "A peculiar, strange, powerful writer has entered Russian literature. He has come with his world, his themes, his language… An unusual text, somewhat irritating and at the same time incredibly attractive, reminiscent of well-known works yet unlike anything else, has appeared in Russian literature. Glancing carelessly at the chapters of the novel, it seems that each of them is written by different authors, employing different styles. Upon careful reading, one is convinced that this is not a collection of styles, but pages of the heroes' lives, where kindness and injustice, naivety and wisdom, loyalty and betrayal collide. Each fragment requires unique formatting. Like any true writer, Myron Gotlib does not spare resources to achieve the maximum effect in depicting each episode.