Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin\'s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity.
Little by little, the old woman and the young man forge an unlikely friendship and make a pact against forgetting..
Tatiana tells her young neighbor her life story, a story that encompasses the entire Russian 20th century with all its horrors and hard-won humanity.
Alexander is a young man whose life has been brutally torn in two.
Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories.
Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer\'s.
One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better.
Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin\'s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity