THE WOMEN OF LAZARUS
Book ID/图书代码： 05224012B52881
English Summary/英文概要： After the success of her debut novel The Surgeon (2005), which gained her the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize and enthusiastic critical acclaim, Marina Stepnova returns with a mesmerizing story of love, loss and human genius.
Marusia and Sergei Chaldonov are indeed blessed in their marriage. He – a respectable scientist with a bright academic career ahead, despite the revolutionary turmoil in Russia at dawn of the 20th century; she – a beautiful, kind, and intelligent wife. Their complete happiness is marred by one thing only: the couple is childless. After the first years of disappointment and doubt, Marusia makes a deal with God, the terms of which she never reveals to her husband. And in 1918, when Marusia is 49 years old, a child is bestowed on the couple.
This child is Lazarus Lindt: 18-year-old self-educated maverick, true genius and a peer of the troubled century.
Lazar, too, loves Marusia, and with a passion that is different from filial love. The offspring of a poor Jewish family of which nothing is
known besides their name, the prodigy Lazarus Lindt becomes Sergei Chaldonov’s brightest pupil, his follower, and in no time outdoes his champion. An easy winner in all fields of science, Lazar fails to accomplish what he wants most. Marusia will never know about the true nature of Lazarus’s feelings – not when he, already an acclaimed physicist and head of a promising line in nuclear physics, follows the Chaldonovs to Ansk during the evacuation and stays in the provincial town when Marusia decides against returning to Moscow after the war; not when the jouir and bon vivant refuses to introduce Marusia to any of his numerous lovers; not even when Lazarus takes his chances and articulates his feelings at Sergei Chaldonov’s anniversary. Marusia’s open-hearted and easy response – “I love you too”– leaves no hope
for Lazarus.
Lindt gets love-struck for the second time in his life years after Marusia’s quiet and peaceful death. Galina – all peaches and cream, an exceptionally beautiful 18-year-old assistant at a Department of Chemistry in the Ansk Engineering Institute of Water Supply – plans her happy and simple family life with a postgraduate student, when her future knocks on the door of the Department in the guise of the Institute’s guest lecturer, living classic of the physical sciences and father of the Soviet atomic bomb, Lazarus Lindt. Galina responds to Lazarus’ passion with virulent hatred unto death, with the stubbornness of a simple and shallow nature. She will never love anyone else, not even her son, who commits suicide after a fatal accident befalls his wife, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Lida an orphan. The lovely tomboy Lida soon learns to endure pain, living through the spiteful indifference of her grandmother Galina, the physical strains of ballet school, and the despair of unrequited first love. Lida is yet to discover that sometimes you have to go to the farthest ends of the earth and
even to die to find your love – and your home.
Marina Stepnova has depicted the country’s 20th century on a broad canvas, permeating it with rhyming fates, echoes of feelings, and the tiniest movements of the human soul. The author’s unprecedented literary command enables the reader to marvel and wonder at new meanings underlying the most basic notions of family, home, happiness, and love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 她凭借小说处女作《外科医生》（2005年）获得了全国畅销书奖的提名，并且好评如潮，而这是一个关于爱、失去和天赋的故事。
马瑞丽和谢尔盖的婚姻是受到祝福的。他——一个可敬的科学家，尽管20世纪俄罗斯的革命动荡不安，他在学术生涯中依然有光明的未来；她——一个美丽，善良聪明的妻子。在他们完美的婚姻中只有一个缺陷：没有孩子。在经历了怀疑和失望后的一年后，马瑞丽和上帝做了个交易，这件事她一直对丈夫保密。1918年马瑞丽49岁，上天赐给了他们一个孩子。这孩子就是拉撒路•瑞士莲，一个18岁自学成才的真正天才，这个动荡世纪的人上人。
拉撒路很爱马瑞丽，与一般的孝顺不同，他对她的爱很强烈。作为一个贫穷的犹太家庭的后代，除了自己的名字外什么都不知道，拉撒路•瑞士莲成了谢尔盖最聪明的学生，他的追随者，任何时候都拥护他。在所有科学领域拉撒路•瑞士莲都能轻易地成为赢家，但是他却得不到他最想要的。马瑞丽将永远不会知道拉撒路的真实感受，即使他已经是一个著名的物理学家和核物理领域的佼佼者。在整个疏散期间他一直跟着谢尔盖，因为马瑞丽反对战后回到莫斯科，所以他呆在一个省镇上。马瑞丽不是一个享乐主义者，即使拉撒路抓住机会在谢尔盖的周年纪念会上表达了他的感情，马瑞丽也只是善良的回应“我也爱你”，没有给拉撒路任何希望。
在马瑞丽安静平和的死后，拉撒路得到了人生中的第二次爱。加林娜——一个非常美丽的18岁女孩，在Ansk供水工程学院化学系担任助理——一个计划过上快乐简单生活的即将毕业的研究生，当她敲响了系研究所的客座讲师的大门，她踏进了经典物理科学家和苏联原子弹之父拉撒路•瑞士莲的生活。加林娜用简单固执的天性回应包容着拉撒路对死亡的憎恶。她将永远不会爱其他任何人，甚至是她的儿子，她的儿子在妻子发生意外后自杀了，留下了5岁的女儿利达。可爱的假小子利达很快学会忍受痛苦，在她的奶奶加林娜的恶意冷漠中，芭蕾舞学校身体疲惫的训练中，以及绝望的单恋中坚强的生活。利达尚未发现，有时你不得不去到最远的天涯海角，甚至付出生命的代价来找到你的爱和你的家。
玛丽娜在广阔的画布上描绘了这个20世纪的国家，无法预知的命运，相呼应的感情以及人类灵魂的最微小的变动渗透其中。笔者前所未有的文学内容使读者唏嘘不已，思考家庭，幸福和爱最基本含义背后的新含义。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：shortlisted for Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award!
Rights sold: Germany btb, Sweden 2244/Bonnier, Estonia Tänapäev, Hungary Európa Publishers
The rights to novel are now sold to 4 territories including btb, Germany, and we are currently negotiating a film deal with the largest Russian TV channel.
The novel has been shortlisted for the biggest literary awards in Russia:
v Shortlisted for the National Bestseller 2012
v Shortlisted for Big Book Award 2012
v Shortlisted for Russian Booker Award 2012
v Nominated forYasnaya Polyana (Lev Tolstoy) Literary Award
v Book of the Month by Moscow Book Store
Results of the Big Book Award will be announced in November this year.
About the Author/作者介绍： MARINA STEPNOVA was born in 1971 in the small town of Efremov, in the Tula region. Marina was raised in Moscow, where
she now lives. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Stepnova’s translation from Romanian of the play Nameless Star by Mihail Sebastian has been staged by numerous theaters throughout Russia. Marina Stepnova is the author of short stories and the novel The Surgeon, which won her the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize and broad critical acclaim.
Marina Stepnova works as a editor-in-chief of the men’s magazine
XXL. She lives with her family in Moscow and is at work on her next
novel.
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