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Tebe semʹdesi͡at shestʹ let, u tebi͡a molodai͡a zhena i shestiletniĭ rebenok, i tebe ostalosʹ zhitʹ neskolʹko mesi͡at͡sev. Kak ty ikh provedeshʹ?Martin, byvshiĭ prepodavatelʹ, i͡urist i istorik prava, uznaet, chto u nego smertelʹnyĭ diagnoz, i teperʹ emu nado splanirovatʹ ostatok zhizni. Chto ty zakhocheshʹ uspetʹ, znai͡a, chto cherez neskolʹko mesi͡at͡sev te, kogo ty li͡ubishʹ, rasstanutsi͡a s toboĭ navsegda? Chto ty mozheshʹ im zaveshchatʹ - kakie obshchie dela, kakie vospominanii͡a, kakie chuvstva? Dolzhen li ty chto-to zaveshchatʹ? Vazhnye nauchnye statʹi, pisʹmo synu, svobodu svoeĭ zhene? I kakie si͡urprizy sposobna prepodnesti pozdni͡ai͡a zhiznʹ?Bernkhard Shlink, sovremennyĭ klassik nemet͡skoĭ literatury, laureat mnogochislennykh literaturnykh premiĭ, avtor bestsellerov "Chtet͡s" i "Vnuchka", napisal novyĭ roman - o li͡ubvi i ee neozhidannykh lit͡sakh i o tikhoĭ otvage pered lit͡som neizbezhnogo. Vpervye na russkom!

You're seventy-six years old, you have a young wife and a six-year-old child, and you have a few months left to live. How will you spend them?Martin, a former teacher, lawyer and legal historian, finds out that he has a terminal diagnosis, and now he needs to plan the rest of his life. What do you want to do, knowing that in a few months those you love will leave you forever? What can you bequeath to them — what common causes, what memories, what feelings? Do you have to bequeath something? Important scientific articles, a letter to your son, freedom to your wife? And what surprises can later life bring?Bernhard Schlink, a modern classic of German literature, winner of numerous literary prizes, author of the bestsellers "The Reader" and "The Granddaughter," has written a new novel about love and its unexpected faces and about quiet courage in the face of the inevitable. For the first time in Russian!