内容简介:
Boris Vinokuras new novel The Bewitched Land is portrait of modern Russian life. This story reveals the innermost secrets of what contemporary Kremlin life is really likeaintrigue, politically motivated murders and scandals among the famous stars of the Russian contemporary business and political elite. And finally, the lives of the simple, ordinary Russian people. The Bewitched Land overviews this life from the hidden rivalries within the inner Kremlin circle to the scarred and bloody political battlefield to a truly frightening climax. This novel is written in the form of authoras long, thrilling dream. It has lasted from last decade of the end of the twentieth century, even over the first years of the twenty-first century. The Bewitched Land follows the fate of people bound to each other by passionate and devoted love yet, by the will of God, thrust into the dangerous and extravagant world of Russiaas transformation attempt from communist dictatorship to democracy. Many complications, dangerous obstacles, and struggles lie ahead of these people as they cling to each other despite the differences of their ages, social status and cultural upbringing.