Description
A principled gynecologist, caught in the upheaval of Stalin’s 1936 ban on abortion, must navigate the moral weight of reproductive science while trying to protect the bonds of his own family. Spanning generations and moving between Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Black Sea’s ancient ruins, the novel traces two intertwined families as their histories reveal how inheritance—biological and emotional—shapes destiny. With sweeping historical scope and intimate psychological insight, it asks what we owe to life and to one another, and how nurture and nature, love and duty, can collide in moments of irreversible choice. In Ludmila Ulitskaya’s signature style—lyrical, humane, and unsparing in its ethical complexity—this Booker Prize–winning novel becomes both a family saga and a profound meditation on heritage, genetics, and mortality.
Available Editions
paperback
Northwestern University Press
Published Aug 15, 2016
583 pages
ISBN: 9780810133495
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Translation
From: rus
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Kukotsky Enigma by Ludmila Ulitskaya.