★Winner of the Big Book Award 2013 - 1st place and Readers’ Choice Award (3rd place)! Winner of Yasnaya Polyana Award 2013! Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize 2013!
Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize 2013
Nominated for the New Literature Award 2013
★ Rights has been sold to the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, China, Sweden, Serbia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Albania, Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Arabia and other more than 30 countries published!
★ 200,000 copies have been sold in Russia!

The book is a stunning literary achievement. In this profound story, Evgeny Vodolazkin, as an expert on medieval history and lore, writes with the skill of narrator about timeless themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice and faith that are evocative and gripping. "If you're going to write a fictional story, it has to be a story that makes the reader cry," he said.
Laurus means "praise" in Latin origin, the Romans saw it as a symbol of intelligence, protection, and peace. Laurus is also often associated with Apollo, the god of healing.
The main character of the book is a mediaeval doctor with excellent medical skills. But he can't cure his lover, so the doctor decides to travel with her. He cured the plague, the wounded, and helped the poor and emaciated. As he continues to give, his healing powers grow stronger and stronger. Can love and devotion save a person's soul and life?

Evgene Vodolazkin：

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD AND YASNAYA POLYANA PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER PRIZE 2013, THE BOOKER
PRIZE 2013, THE BIG BOOK AWARD 2010,
ANDREI BELY PRIZE 2009
His works have been authorized to be published in more than 30 countries!

Evgene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev in 1964. A scholarly expert in the old Russian literature, since 1990 Vodolazkin has worked in the department of the Old Russian Literature at the Pushkin House. Prof. Dmitry Likhachev’s pupil, Evgene Vodolazkin has numerous academic published titles and articles to his name and has been awarded fellowships for research and lectureship in Germany from Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Vodolazkin’s debut novel, Solovyov and Larionov, became an immediate success, shortlisted to Andrei Bely Prize (2009) and Big Book Award (2010). Laurus is Evgene Vodolazkin’s second novel. Evgene Vodolazkin lives with his family in St Petersburg, Russia.