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This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev's literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and 'authenticity'. Throughout their long marriage, the writers and poets Ravil Bukharaev and Lydia Grigorieva had written in separate rooms in their home. In this deeply-felt and poetic memoir, Ravil writes to Lydia in order to try explain (at last) things left unsaid over the years. With immense honesty and insight, he explores how their journey together has been shaped by his profound Muslim beliefs and his lifelong search for what is authentic and true. Along the way, he creates finely defined and moving vignettes of eight very different people struggling to find meaning in their lives, from old Elizaveta Osipovna, alone in her Moscow flat, to proud Arzhana coping with a tough life in the Altai mountains.
Contents
1 Ten Minutes of Solitude
2 The Gout Flower
3 The Ghost of the Bird-cherry Tree
The Month of Little Heat
4 The Escape and Twenty Years of Non-existence
On to the Other Side
5 'Not Always Flying...'
Chestnut near Karlovy Bridge
6 A Prayer in Beech Forests
About the Fishing Rod
7 The Dorothean Fields
Stairway to Heaven
8 Who Cries
The Secret Lily of the Valley
9 Postscript
