A noose and a stone in the green grass. The Executioner's Gospel
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A noose and a stone in the green grass. The Executioner's Gospel
19.99 €
In the 70s of the twentieth century, the Vainera brothers, authors of the most famous novel "The Place to Meet You Cannot Change", embarked on a dangerous path: wanting to serve the truth in a country with a totalitarian regime, they created the anti-Soviet dilogy "The Noose and the Stone in the Green Grass" and "The Gospel of the Executioner". The books dealt with two maximally taboo topics: the atrocities of the "organs" left without retribution and the "Jewish question". The heroes of the novel "The noose and the stone in the green grass" - Sulamifa and Alyosha, her lover, the son of one of the heads of the MGB. The destinies of their families are intertwined in the most surprising way. The novel contains both a tragic love story and a fascinating investigation with chases and discoveries. Reality, albeit already in a relatively "vegetarian" time, destroys any living life, all those who in one way or another do not fit into the wretched Soviet standards and want the impermissible - freedom ... At the center of the novel "The Gospel of the Executioner" - Pavel Khvatkin, a charismatic anti-hero who cleverly weaves murderous plots, but is himself in the grip of passionate attraction to the woman whose life and family he ruthlessly destroyed... In the 1970s, retired, but not yet quite old MGB colonel Khvatkin is still on the horse. "I want to win in life," he says. Memory at times throws him out of the prosperous present into the bloody past. We see his life from the inside, through his own eyes. And here is the "good news" from the executioner: the element of people who do not hesitate to break other people's fates is fear. They generate it, feed on it, and understand only this language. Words of mercy and love are unknown to them, inaccessible. Their lives, too, are crippled. But this does not make them any less dangerous.....
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