

Laurus
Author: Eugene Vodolazkin, Lisa C. Hayden
Narrator: James Anderson Foster
Unabridged: 13 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/20/2017
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Synopsis
Laurus's travels take him from the Middle Ages to the Plague of 1771, where as a holy fool he displays miraculous healing powers, to the political upheavals of the late-twentieth century. At each transformative stage of his journey he becomes more revered by the church and the people, until he decides, one day, to return to his home village to lead the life of a monastic hermit—not realizing that it is here that he will face his most difficult trial yet.
Laurus is a remarkably rich novel about the eternal themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice, and faith, from one of Russia's most exciting and critically acclaimed novelists.