To the stars

One hundred and twenty years ago, Ad Astra was called "a work that remains."
The authors placed the musical word "duet" under its title and developed the plot against the backdrop of hymns to nature, songs of ancient times, the music of space and the silence of sphinxes. The voices of the heroes come from the Białowieża Forest and the Bernese Alps, from the Black Guszczer tract full of wonders and fears and from the majestic glaciers of the Rhone, from the fairy-tale Lauterbrunnen valley, over which a shepherd's song rings, and from the ruins of a Belarusian castle, devoured by wild boars, from where the sounds of a ghostly hunt carry into the forest...

The notes of life are woven into the melody of love: the heroes are engaged in, to use the language of our time, a philosophical and psychological battle, in which, among other things, one hears the arguments of the patriot and the cosmopolitan, the heart and the mind, happiness and sacrifice, love and duty.

The work is a continuation of Eliza Orzheszko's novel "The Wild One" ("Two Poles"). It is being published in Belarusian for the first time.