An unusual family saga from the beginning of the century to the present day, a novel about great love and great dislike. "Women of Lazarus" by Marina Stepnova is a bestseller, awarded the “Big Book " award and translated into 25 languages. Lazarus Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, a funny young man, a self-taught genius, who appeared on the threshold of their house in 1918, will love not at all with a filial love, but this will remain his secret. After the war, in the closed city of N, the luminary of Soviet science will fall head over heels in love with a young Galina and literally steal her into " another life”, but ... will only earn serious hatred. The third” woman of Lazarus", the orphan granddaughter Lidochka, will inherit his genius nature, but will dream only of one thing-to find her own, unimaginable house, full of warmth and creaking of real floorboards. Marusin's house.'And Marusya was really happy. That is, she has always, all her life, even in the most desperate times, been happy – because she was lucky to be born like this. To be happy had always meant to love, but it was only now, at seventy-three, in the evacuation, in the war, that she finally understood that to love was not to make one's own. You can also love strangers, that is, only strangers should be loved, because this is the only way they become their own."