Women of Lazarus

An unusual family saga from the beginning of the century to the present day, a novel about great love and great dislike. “Lazarus’ Women” by Marina Stepnova is a bestseller, awarded the “Big Book” prize and translated into 25 languages. Lazar Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, will be loved by a funny young man, a self-taught genius, who appeared on the threshold of their house in 1918, with anything but filial love, but this will remain his secret. After the war, in the closed city of N, the luminary of Soviet science will fall head over heels in love with the young Galina and literally steal her into “another life”, but… will earn only serious hatred. The third “woman of Lazarus”, the orphan granddaughter Lidochka, will inherit his genius nature, but she will dream of only one thing - to find her own, unimaginable home, full of warmth and the creaking of real floorboards. Marusya’s house. “And Marusya was truly happy. That is, she was always, all her life, even in the most desperate times, happy - because she was lucky to be born that way. To be happy for her always meant to love, but only now, at seventy-three, during the evacuation, during the war, she finally understood that to love does not mean to make someone your own. You can love strangers, that is - you should only love strangers, because only then do they become your own.”