The Time of Swallows

"The Time of Swallows" is a novel about first love, a dying village on the brink of an era, and the inevitability of change. A sentimental story, equal in emotional intensity to "The Thorn Birds." The end of the 20th... century. Gleb and Liza seem like true Romeo and Juliet. A touching youthful love, devoid of banality, becomes part of the southern Russian landscapes. They are true little masters of the forest, river, and fields… There is no hostility between Gleb's and Liza's families, but neither can there be peace. They are too different — like two eras, two worlds, two distant stars. Love, crowning the century, does not notice the devastation. But what can one fragile girl oppose to the destructive wheel of history?