Friend

The swift, thunderous, yet hospitable Amu Darya river. Here, on its banks, at the end of the 19th century, the family of young Adam Yantsen found refuge. Time passed, the Yantsens built a new life, fiercely believing that misfortunes and troubles would this time bypass them. But the meek, obedient Adam, for the sake of saving his love, commits an irrevocable act. And now, forever banished and lonely, he is forced to wander the world.

Decades will pass, countries will change, before in a town by the Volga, a kind, quiet woman named Marfa gifts her neighbor's girl Alyonka her husband Peter's favorite book. The book written by that very Adam. And the circle will close.

«Friend» — a redemptively alive novel about duty, faith, love — sometimes forsaken, and sometimes all-conquering, — and about the decisions and actions that allow one to remain honest, primarily with oneself.