About this audiobook
"The Eighteenth Year" is the second, most dramatic and stressful book of the epic trilogy of Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, "The Walk on the Suffering", immersing the reader in the bloody chaos of the Civil War and the Brotherhood Battle of 1918. The roads of the main heroes break down: Ivan Telegin and Vadim Rosthin are on different sides of the barricade - one chooses the service in the Red Army, the other is closed to the White Movement. The Daša and Katya sisters, after losing the contact with their loved ones, travel through the dusting country, facing deprivation, cruelty and deadly danger. In this cruel waterfall of history, each of the heroes will have to pass through the hardest spiritual trials, re-thinking their ideals and struggle for survival and love. Tolstoy, with great historical scale and irresistible psychological truth, re-creates the cruel spirit of 1918, showing the tragedy of the people broken by internal contradictions. About what the book in three words: Chaos, Separation, Experiments. Who to read: Lovers of large-scale historical prose, fans of deep epic novels about the Civil War, as well as everyone who follows the dramatic fate of the heroes of the trilogy "The Walk on the Torture".