Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “Laurel” about the life of a medieval healer became a literary event in 2013 (winner of the “Big Book”, “Yasnaya Polyana” awards, shortlist of the “National Bestseller”, “Russian Booker” awards), which again confirmed: “high literature” is capable of captivating a wide variety of readers. “A Completely Different Time” is Vodolazkin’s new book. And in it, as if refuting the title, he repeats his favorite thought: “there is no time, everything is one and everything is connected to everything.” A young historian plunges headlong into another era, restoring the life story of a white general (“Soloviev and Larionov”), and this suddenly begins to influence his own life in an amazing way; a German soldier who reached Stalingrad (“Close Friends”) returns to Russia decades later to walk this path again...