★ The book is the long-awaited screenplay by Evgeny Vodolazkin . This theatrical production has his unique style, which is something that all readers like.
★ "Sister of Four" uses the absurd spirit in the drama to express the author's view of the current events around, telling us that eternity and value creation are not dependent on current events.

“There is a gulf between prose and drama, an impressive canyon, if not an abyss. But someone has to step up and fill the gap. The prose writer's work can be expressed in many ways. But for the work of a dramatist, it is the only way to express it. Just like the violin is not the only instrument that can be used in a band, but there are some sounds that only the violin can make. This book is not an attempt to 'leap over the gorge'. I am still in my dramatic experiments, and these characters bear the hallmark of prose: they prefer to express themselves in words rather than in action.” - Evgeny Vodolazkin

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.