Eisen

Guzel Yakhina is the author of three novels: "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes", "My Children", "Echelon to Samarkand", a laureate of prestigious awards "Book of the Year", "Big Book", "Yasnaya Polyana". Her works have been adapted for film and have enjoyed success on theatrical stages. The new novel is dedicated to the mystery of the great Eisenstein. A complex, restless man, he hid behind a hundred masks and was never deciphered. The creator of desperately propagandistic films of the early years of Soviet power or masterpieces of world cinema? A legendary lover or an icy heart? An egocentric drowning in his own fears, or a great scientific mind? This book is an invitation to reflect, admire, be horrified, fall in love, or be paralyzed by dislike, and at times simply laugh out loud. Such a palette of emotions raged in everyone who had the joy or misfortune to communicate with Eisen at some point.