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Nine separate stories, nine paths through courage, loss, hope and love.
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Almost thirteen, Misha Mirov falls in love for the first time, quarrels with adults and friends, and learns that compassion can demand real courage. A summer of swings, hills and difficult choices.
Four winter days and a thousand kilometres. Thirteen-year-old Misha travels from Moscow toward Rostov-on-Don to see Masha, and encounters strangers, dangers and discoveries along the way.
Andrey and Nastya love each other. Sveta loves Andrey, too. The painful triangle becomes a lesson in jealousy, dignity and the impossibility of forcing another person to love you.
Alexey Istomin steals car parts and escapes at extraordinary speed. When a coach discovers his gift, a sporting future opens before him. But the hardest race is toward responsibility and love.
Vika, a governor’s daughter, and Gleb, a boy from a very different world, meet through car racing. When Vika’s secure life collapses, their feelings face a test of trust and loyalty.
In Japan, Mikhail falls in love with Yumi. Then a devastating tsunami separates them. Amid destruction and uncertainty, he searches for her and refuses to abandon hope.
Old university friends reunite for a picnic, get lost in the forest and discover photographs nobody remembers taking. Memories, guilt and fear change an innocent reunion.
Alexey once had music, fame, a family and love. Addiction dismantles his life. In the aftermath of irreversible choices, this adult story asks what can still be saved.
For decades Boris Filatov must conceal his true self and live a life that is not his own. A tragic adult novel about the right to love and the cost of enforced silence.