Eisen

Guzel Yakhina is the author of three novels: "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes," "My Children," "Echelon to Samarkand," and a laureate of prestigious awards such as "Book of the Year," "Big Book," and "Yasnaya Polyana." Her works have been adapted into... films and have been successful on theater stages. The new novel is dedicated to the mystery of the great Eisenstein. A complex, tormented man, he hid behind hundreds of 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, drowned in his own fears, or a great scientific mind? This book is an invitation to ponder, marvel, be horrified, fall in love, or be numb with dislike, and at times just laugh out loud. Such was the palette of emotions that raged in everyone who ever had the joy or misfortune of interacting with Eisen.