|Sonechka|

The stories of Ludmila Ulitskaya won a recognition on the native land and abroad long time ago, representing in a worthy manner modern Russian prose.
In 1996 author received Medici's French premium, and in 2001 her novel “Kazus Kukotskogo“ was recognized as the best literary work of year, and so premium Smirnoff-Booker for the first time felt into female hands.
The story “Sonechka”, written to a genre of the family chronicle, is a history of love and separation, female happiness and bitter years of loneliness, pleasure of a unification and a pain of treason. And the main thing is that in a delicate and clever narration about destiny of the ordinary person we can read history of our country, social mode, history of the left century.
„Sonechka's” statement is first attempt of a scenic embodiment of the story.