Popular fiction Stabat Mater

"STABAT MATER" - vtoroj roman Ruslana Kozlova. Pervyj, "Ostrov Bujan", byl izdan v 2001 godu. Mir okhvatila novaja neizlechimaja bolezn. Ona porazhaet tolko detej. Bolnykh stanovitsja vse bolshe, i khospisy, gde pytajutsja oblegchit ikh muki, nachinajut zakryvat. Vrachi, svjaschennik, deti i ikh roditeli zapirajutsja tam, kak v kreposti... Nadezhda pobedit strashnyj nedug prikhodit s neozhidannoj storony, a vot vechnye voprosy - zachem nuzhny stradanija i v chelovecheskikh li silakh umenshit ikh - ostajutsja s kazhdym.

A new incurable disease has gripped the world. It only affects children. There are more and more patients, and hospices, where they try to alleviate their suffering, begin to close. Doctors, a priest, children and their parents are locked there, as if in a fortress... The hope to defeat a terrible disease comes from an unexpected direction, but the eternal questions - why suffering is needed and whether it is humanly possible to reduce them - remain with everyone.