What about the novel itself except that the reader is taken in very different ways. Each in his own way still retains the interest and curiosity. First, the mystery that hovers over the story and personality of Leah, her parents disappear in a frozen lake in winter, somewhere deep in the Siberian Far North, leaving the child on the bank. Leah is reccueillie then raised by simple people, poor but big heart, trying to survive in the turmoil of perestroika.
This is probably the beginning of his life, marked by the terrible tragedy of losing his parents and believe abandoned, any child who gives personality Leah that emotional and psychological fragility, it is first difficult to grasp. Gradually, however, we let ourselves be carried away by the meanders of thought extraordinary, all made of dreams and torments. It is in these times that we are fortunate to capture pages of marvelous beauty, full of delicacy, when the young woman says later landscapes of Siberia in winter, long walks in the snow. ...
This is Leah sensitized me to the extraordinary epic of the conquest of space by that people devoid of hope its existence to improve but whose Grand Rêve has become, one day, the fierce desire be the first to put his feet on the moon. With so much suffering, so many sacrifices! Vasya, the husband of our heroine, is among those who have the opportunity to risk their lives to reach the moon! It is he who tells us with pride and passion the challenge for his people to beat the Americans in this area. And what pride! A success that is seen as a glory, which allows at least to better withstand the collapse of their world. It's Vasya that teaches us the real story of these men, the first steps and fools of this conquest trials until success: Reaching the moon. This time it is the husband of Leah that offers us dream and poetry.
A novel that, certainly commands attention and can not leave the reader indifferent. To read by letting himself be carried away by magic.
