Surgeon
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Surgeon
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Marina Stepnova is a novelist who loudly sounded the novel “Lazarus Women” (the “Big Book” award, the shortlist of the “Russian Booker”, “National Bestseller”, “Yasnaya Polyana”), the novels “Godless Lane” and the collection of short stories “Somewhere near Grosseto”.
In the novel “The Surgeon”, the story of the brilliant plastic surgeon Arkady Khripunov is intertwined with the story of the life of Hasan ibn Sabbah – the prophet and founder of the state of the Nizarite Islamists of the XI century, the owner of the impregnable fortress of Alamut. Hripunov changes human bodies, and therefore fate. Giving people new faces, he sees in front of him just material - cartilage and skin. Ibn Sabbah demands unquestioning obedience from his material and kills the undesirables with his own hands. Both feel themselves to be beings of a higher order, human passions do not touch them, the only thing that can amaze the chosen of God is earthly beauty. . .
In the novel “The Surgeon”, the story of the brilliant plastic surgeon Arkady Khripunov is intertwined with the story of the life of Hasan ibn Sabbah – the prophet and founder of the state of the Nizarite Islamists of the XI century, the owner of the impregnable fortress of Alamut. Hripunov changes human bodies, and therefore fate. Giving people new faces, he sees in front of him just material - cartilage and skin. Ibn Sabbah demands unquestioning obedience from his material and kills the undesirables with his own hands. Both feel themselves to be beings of a higher order, human passions do not touch them, the only thing that can amaze the chosen of God is earthly beauty. . .
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