Deti moi - Iakhina Guzel' Shamilevna

"My Children" is a new novel by Guzel Yakhina, the brightest debutante in the history of Russian literature of modern times, winner of the "Big Book" and "Clear Polyana" for the bestseller "Suleiha Opens Eyes."
"In the first novel, which became rapidly famous and a year after its debut, having lived in thirty translations and at the top of the world literary prizes, Guzel Yakhina threw us to Siberia and at the same time showed the Tatars in herself, and in Russia, and, one might say, in all of us. And now it immerses the reader in cold Volga water, in thick moss and peat, in swell and slime, in Ethel - Bulgu - Su, and her "thought folk" like the Volga, is deep, and she probes the immetchin in herself, and in Russia, and, one might say, in all of us. In the story, in fact, in the foreground love, death, and history, and politics, and war, and creativity ..."
Jelena Kostijkovic
Volga, 1920s and 1930s. Jakob Bach is a Russian German teacher in the Gnadental colony. He has long turned away from the world, raises the only daughter Anche on a secluded farm and writes fairy tales, which miraculously and tragically come true.
"I wanted to tell about the world of the German Volga - bright, original, alive - about a world once created by newcomers in a foreign country, and today lost in the past. But it's also a story about how great love generates fears in our hearts and at the same time helps us to overcome them."
Guzel Yakhina