Godless Alley

Marina Stepnova is a laureate of the Big Book Prize and the author of The Garden, Lazarus' Women, The Surgeon, and Somewhere Near Grosseto. Godless Lane is a coming-of-age novel and a love story at the same time; it has been translated into 14 languages. The book's protagonist, Ivan Ogarev, has tried since childhood to build his life in spite of his parents, the usual way of life, albeit in the capital, but on the outskirts, and the given circumstances: school - army - work. A tragic incident pushes him to choose a profession - he becomes a doctor. Only again everything is like many others: medical school - private clinic - devoted wife... Ogarev accepts the rules of the game of an adult, but... fate again presents him with something unexpected - love for a strange girl, for whom the main thing is freedom from everything and everyone, including life itself... “Raised elbows, quick movements of blind fingers, arranging a knot on the back of the head, a bird's tilt of the head. A braid. A parting. Curls at the low, tender forehead and at the back, on the neck. A quick, inarticulate question through laughing hairpins clenched in teeth. More beautiful than a woman who fixes her hair, only a woman you are in love with. What a pity that they all get their hair cut now, the fools.”

Author: Marina Stepnova
Year of release: 2020
Publisher: AST Publishing House
Pages: 384
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 132x207x25 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-127446-7