The book tells about the lives of children who got to the orphanages and boarding schools. This is an uninvented story, written under the impression of the author’s trips as part of a group of volunteers to these institutions. The names of children are changed. The illustrations depict children who have nothing to do with the described events.
One day the young man meets his father, who left him in childhood. Wanting to take revenge on him, he begins to “pump out” money from his father, thereby improving his own financial situation. He transformered from the “nerd” to one of the “golden youth”. He carries away with his new life so much, that he runs into large debts. Then he arranges his own kidnapping and demands a ransom from his father. But during the ransom happens a real kidnapping, in which all participants become hostages.
Роман Friedrich задумывался как исследовательская программа любви и носил рабочее название «Двести лет одиночества» по пятьдесят лет каждого её вида: к женщине, к делу, к родине, к Богу. Почему одиночества, если речь идёт о любви? Потому что любовь требует преодоления эгоизма, самоотречения. А в полной мере самоотречение возможно только там, где человек ничего не получает взамен.
Paul Endenne was far from imagining to live one of the worst experiences of his life. Recruited at the Ministry of National Education, he will climb the ladder to occupy the position of direct collaborator of the minister. A very envious position that has given rise to some animosity towards him from some employees. But Paul, who has always been able to remain honest in his work, will find himself at the center of several scandals that have a direct link with the one he considers as a father.
One is the gardener, the other is the Vizier. The capricious will of the Great Sultan reduces them one by one, and they begin a deadly race for survival. Who of them is a hunter, and who is a victim, will decide Fate. All this happens under the unflinching gaze of the Lord of the Osman and thousands of secret spectators. Who will win? The result of the duel you will learn, after reading my new book «The Gardener», which is based on real historical events.
