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" Abode " by Zakhara Prilepin

Zakhara Prilepin's huge novel "Abode" takes place on the stage of the Solovetsky special purpose camp, the second half of the 1920s.

Is it about Solovki? Is it about the camp? Is it about time? No, no.

About time – partly, to some extent. But there is a much stronger theme in it, connected not with the early Sovetolite, but with eternity. This topic is the dialogue between man and God. That's right. The core of the entire narrative is the extreme exposure of how the essence of humanity, how the innermost part of the human soul, having become dirty and dirty, still calls out to God: answer me, why are you silent? Why are you hurting me? Why such injustice? Why is hell all around me? Yes, you don’t hear and don’t love me! You! I'm leaving You! Do you hear? Or no, I still can’t leave... Don’t leave me.

In Prilepin’s “Abode” there is not one soul, not two, not three, but everyone, all any significant characters in one way or another build their attitude towards the Lord. Someone, choking on screams, someone - quietly, in one word, in one gesture...

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