This is the story of a victim of domestic violence — inflicted by a veteran of the Afghan war who suffers from PTSD. It reflects the fate of hundreds of thousands of Russian women — including my own mother, who was a victim of her alcohol-addicted husband, my father. I witnessed it with my own eyes. It became my own deepest pain.
The story hurt you, and you felt deep compassion for the female protagonist — and that is exactly what the book is about. About the tragic fate of countless women in the Soviet Union back then, and in today’s Russia.
This is the story of a victim of domestic violence — inflicted by a veteran of the Afghan war who suffers from PTSD. It reflects the fate of hundreds of thousands of Russian women — including my own mother, who was a victim of her alcohol-addicted husband, my father. I witnessed it with my own eyes. It became my own deepest pain.
The story hurt you, and you felt deep compassion for the female protagonist — and that is exactly what the book is about. About the tragic fate of countless women in the Soviet Union back then, and in today’s Russia.
Warm regard,
Aleksandr