It is comprised of many colorfully illustrated events during the journey, which assemble in to a poetically beautiful story. The story is told concentrating on the girl, but by an omniscient narrator. The main characters are the girl and the man. They are travelling from Moscow to Ulan Bator, the girl to study archeological sites and the man to work at a construction site. The girl doesn’t talk at all for most of the book, and speaks for the first time on page 176, line 6: “Then she looked him in the eye and said, as Job said: ‘For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me, Vadim Nikolayevich.’“ In the beginning of the book, the man bothers the girl with rude suggestions, but through the journey they grow together as the man tells the girl stories of his fatherland and of his experiences. When the girl gets back to the man in the train from her adventures in the countryside, she feels safer when she’s with him. The girl and the man are the polar opposites of each other. The girl reads and quilts as the man drinks copious amounts of vodka and talks trash about his
It is comprised of many colorfully illustrated events during the journey, which assemble in to a poetically beautiful story. The story is told concentrating on the girl, but by an omniscient narrator. The main characters are the girl and the man. They are travelling from Moscow to Ulan Bator, the girl to study archeological sites and the man to work at a construction site. The girl doesn’t talk at all for most of the book, and speaks for the first time on page 176, line 6: “Then she looked him in the eye and said, as Job said: ‘For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me, Vadim Nikolayevich.’“ In the beginning of the book, the man bothers the girl with rude suggestions, but through the journey they grow together as the man tells the girl stories of his fatherland and of his experiences. When the girl gets back to the man in the train from her adventures in the countryside, she feels safer when she’s with him. The girl and the man are the polar opposites of each other. The girl reads and quilts as the man drinks copious amounts of vodka and talks trash about his