Henri Troyat is the pseudonym of Lev Tarasov. He was born in Moscow into an Armenian family in 1911, and has lived in France since 1917. Henri Troyat became a popular writer, he is the winner of several honorary literary prizes, including the Goncourt (for the novel “Spider”, 1938). In the second book of the trilogy “The Egletiere Family” the reader will meet already familiar characters: Auntie Madeleine, the Egletiere couple and their children, who are trying to start an independent life. The novel “The Hunger of the Lion Cubs” is published in Russian for the first time.