После Тишины
After the Silence
C1 · Advanced · fiction · 8 scenes · Free to read
An advanced literary tale set generations after 'the Silence' — an unexplained collapse in which every machine died and the cities emptied. In a tiny settlement on the edge of the great forest and the marshes of Polesia, a young woman named Yaryna crosses the wetlands to a dead, overgrown city to recover its books for the village elder, and carries the memory of the vanished world home to the next generation. A deliberately apolitical story about nature reclaiming the earth, the fragility and endurance of human memory, and the hope carried in a sack of rescued books.
Characters
- Yaryna (Ярына) — The keeper of memory
- Old Astap (Дед Астап) — The last witness
- Zosya (Зося) — The next generation
Vocabulary from this story
- тишина — silence
- пуща — primeval forest
- болото — marsh
- туман — mist
- чаща — thicket
- тропа — path
- камыш — reeds
- река — river
- снег — snow
- аист — stork
- зубр — bison
- кабан — wild boar