..".There is nothing deliberate or contrived in these stories. It is as if the author chops off, piece by piece from himself, every story - childhood with his granny, musical lessons, loving experience of youth, and, of course, music: music which sounds in every story - sometimes by relief, sometimes just by a hardly seen shade... The confession of each hero in "Requiem" is bright, serene, and heartfelt as well as all of Kholodov's prose..." -"Literary Symphony," Book Review, Moscow.
..".There is nothing deliberate or contrived in these stories. It is as if the author chops off, piece by piece from himself, every story - childho...
..".There is nothing deliberate or contrived in these stories. It is as if the author chops off, piece by piece from himself, every story - childhood with his granny, musical lessons, loving experience of youth, and, of course, music: music which sounds in every story - sometimes by relief, sometimes just by a hardly seen shade... The confession of each hero in "Requiem" is bright, serene, and heartfelt as well as all of Kholodov's prose..." -"Literary Symphony," Book Review, Moscow.
..".There is nothing deliberate or contrived in these stories. It is as if the author chops off, piece by piece from himself, every story - childho...
"Love Stories" is the English version of selected stories from the book "Melodies of love" published earlier in Russian by AuthorHouse publisher.
Youthful sensual love. Love passionate. Fleeting love, generated by beauty, loneliness, desire flash. Love universal, idyllic, ennobling. Love and creativity. A parable of love, as motive power of noble fulfillments. Motherly love, related, love - compassion. Love as hope of other, still unknown life. Love in a comic context. All these displays of the feeling, presented to us by the nature, are reflected in realities both former Soviet and...
"Love Stories" is the English version of selected stories from the book "Melodies of love" published earlier in Russian by AuthorHouse publisher.