The historical era unceremoniously and often brutally interferes with the course of human life. The twentieth century was not merciful — with its world wars, revolutions, Nazism, the Holocaust, the Gulag, the Leningrad blockade. But the writer’s gaze is full of compassion and tenderness, tearing people and plots out of oblivion. Dina Rubina, with her comprehensive humanism and deep understanding of human nature, confronts man and history in a new collection of short prose «Yasha, did you want that?» The conflict is sometimes tragic, and Dina Rubina puts the heroes in a hopeless position, from which only a miracle can save. And there is a place for a miracle. Love, family and art — this is what Dina Rubina shows that is capable of protecting a person from the iron tread of time. The most real miracles. Is not it? With honed skill and constant sensitivity to the word, the author interferes with the sad and funny in his stories — as in life itself.
“The stories and stories of the collection“ Yasha, did you want this? ”Are doubly significant for me: each story underlying these works was either lived by me personally, or connected with my family, or is related to non-superficial, non-everyday events in my life characters, and therefore dear to me as well as personally lived. «
Dina Rubina
1. Just a voice sounds …
2. Porcelain ventures
3. Lyubka
4. Barguzin
5. Blockade stories
6. Soup
7. Adam and Miriam
8. Topolev lane
9. Children of the Etinger’s House (from the novel «Russian Canary. Zheltukhin»)
10. Grandma
11. Gold paint
12. Old woman Baobab (from the novel «Napoleon Convoy. Book 1. Rowan Wedge»)
Attention! The phonogram contains obscene language
Read by: Dina Rubina
Illustration: Julia Stotskaya
© Dina Rubina
Recorded by Audio Publishing House VIMBO
© & ℗ Vimbo LLC, 2021
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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