Ludmila Ulitskaya - Medea and Her Children (English)

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's book "Medea and her children" is one of the most interesting attempts to build a new "family novel". In the book, the author's unsurpassed ability to tell the life of a private person, free mastery of mythological layers, modernity and even ideology are interwoven in the book. The main character, the childless Medea Sinopli, the namesake of the ancient Medea, is a unique deity for a large, multi-branched family She collects, unites, glues fragile family relations with his blood.