For the first time in Russian - a novel from the author of The Winter's Tale and The Manuscript Found in a Suitcase. “Soldier of the Great War” is compared to the books of Remarque, Hemingway, and Pasternak. It would seem that a lot has been said about the war by a lot of people, but each fate, twisted by the wheel of history, is interesting in its own way. The hero of Helprin’s novel, Alessandro Giuliani, is a professor of aesthetics. Half a century after the First World War, he retraces the once traveled path along roads that then, in 1914, were illuminated by the same bright sun, but everything was completely different, because there was a war and soldiers who had their feet bleeding on these roads, could die at any moment. “I promised myself to re-read this book at least once every ten years to test my soul,” writes a reader. There are few books about which you can say that.