The book "Handwriting Leonardo" (Dina Rubina): summary and reviews

Genius, talent or outstanding ability always caused a lively debate: are they a gift or a curse the heavens? This issue is devoted to many works, and even the gospel in some sense tells us that a person with an extraordinary gift among the people will definitely not be easy. A similar theme applies to Dina Rubina. “the Handwriting of Leonardo”, a novel about the extraordinary gift of Anna Nesterenko, the girl who was adopted by an ordinary Kyiv family.

An Odd child

One evening in the apartment of a childless couple, Anatoly and Maria's phone rang. Taking the tube, Maria heard the voice of the relative of the husband – she offered to adopt the girl, an orphan, abandoned all relatives.

The Reason for this callousness was revealed soon enough: the kid is truly weird. Almost immediately it turns out that Nute psychic: she can see the future and periodically surprising people with his knowledge that for the most part not in delight. People don't want to know what awaits them - that's what it meant Dina Rubina. “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” including that the vision of the future is not able to save.

Foster parents

To Know the result of each football match in advance is only useful if you bet. For the fan of such a talent would be a real curse, but Anatoly, with all my heart loving foster daughter, still leads her to the football and always refused when the little heroine of the novel “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” offers to tell what the outcome of the match.

If the father is only upset that Masha is frightened to death. In search of answers, she recovers to the neighbor's deceased girl's mother and hears a strange story, similar to the hoax.

Nutu mother gave birth to the minor, the lover, the town had a very bad reputation. This father – gambler, deluding the simpletons at the local beach – the novel “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” appears twice, and both times an adult now Anna won't have a clue who he is.

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Shards of mirrors

A Neighbor says to Masha, and that is why she refused to girls: after her mother's death she took Nuto in to sleep and now, waking up in the night, I realized that there's no child in the apartment. Frightened, came out into the hallway, saw the open neighbor's door, entered and was stunned: this little girl standing near the mirror on the stool and talked to him, gently touching the surface, as if someone was there.

This behavior through lots of pages explain to the readers of ruby. “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” generally consists of separate fragments of the narrative – from different persons, at different times. They are formed in more or less clear picture only after reading the entire novel as a whole. It turns out, going to work, the mother assured Anna that goes into the mirror. Indeed, it reflects the front door, where she disappeared and then reappeared. Maybe the poor kid was just waiting for the mirror will return him to the mother, but, could be worse, and more interesting: the ‘Handwriting of Leonardo,” gives a final answer to any question.

Not a Bit hopeful, Mary returned to Kiev to live in perpetual anxiety fear which in the end will drive her crazy. She will sincerely believe that the mirror visor real Anna, replacing it with another, a stranger, a hostile witch, the spawn of the underworld itself. All mirrors from the house will have to clean up, but still: is not shuttered Windows, and the reflections in the dark Windows bring the crazy in a terrible state.

Handwriting Leonardo

But all this will come later, when the adopted daughter is already a graduate. In the meantime, Nute continued to haunt seven other oddities. First, the girl was left-handed. Intelligent family decided not to alter the child: wonder why the torment? The nurse, Christina, took a different view. While parents were not at home, Nuth had to go with attached to the body with the left hand, and the result was stunning: the girl acquired an extraordinary skill, driving equally with both hands. Later incredible ability to allow her to perform in the circus with breathtaking stunts and working as a stuntman.

The Following oddity of steel letters. Persistently trying to teach my daughter to read, adoptive father suddenly guessed that it reads from right to left, because instead of “donut” it is “kilbom”. Even more interesting that writes girl exactly the same, but still turning over the letters in the mirror. This phenomenon in psychology is called “the handwriting of Leonardo’: on many drawings of the legendary Da Vinci's explanations are written.

Mirror universes

Among other things, the girl discovers a brilliant ability in physics and mathematics. Came an ad on optic circle, Anna meets a man with whom will be friends for life: a brilliant physicist Eliezer, who for several years going to read just a little girl University course. Fascinated by mirrors, deep understanding of their properties and capabilities, many years later, they both will expect the drawings foramazing theme, Anne Nesterenko in the United States, Canada and Europe.

But Anna mirror – not just pieces of glass with remarkable optical characteristics. This whole universe, is able to preserve, to save, to show the past or the future. In the mind of the girls also have a "mirror" showing her sometimes terrible things.

The Genius and love

In Anna falls for a nice boy Volodja. With him they will ascolese than one thousand kilometers with amazing complexity circus. Will live together, get married and get divorced, when she will meet my real soul mate that we often hear when it comes to love. This is a bassoonist Simon, Senya. He is much older than the heroine and loves her so devotedly that the strangeness of girls, annoying everyone around, he does not interfere.

His letters to his beloved open another world of the novel by Dina Rubina. To see how intricately linked the lives of all heroes, will have to read "the Handwriting of Leonardo”: short content is not able to transfer any colorful descriptions of the places where events occur, nor the many colorful characters that fill the novel.

Cursed gift

A Wonderful gift Anna exhausting her. In its internal "mirror" she sees the future death of loved ones and strangers, dirty secrets, unpleasant thoughts. Most often this ability causes fear in people, the need to blame. In circus school “mirror” showed her the death of the talented aerial gymnasts Tanya. Anna tried in vain to warn her, but of course she didn't listen. "Handwriting Leonardo" again sad and ironic recalls that people want to hear only pleasant predicting the future. Once the pride of the senior class crashed right on the exam, the young psychic had to listen to about the induced damage, envy, witchcraft. It almost made Anna drop out. Case, forced not to share my gift once again, she realized that it is better to keep quiet.

The Second time Anna pierce at the end of the book, making an indirect attempt to warn Genevieve about the impending death of her new Hobbies: Russian gymnast Elena that “mirror” showed Anna hanged on a wire (safety circus rope). After the prophecy came true, she hears the same charges as in the distant youth: the witch, the witch.

Free flight

The Entire life of the heroine wanted to get rid of the dubious gift of heaven. Realizing the futility of these hopes, she jumps on a motorcycle with Cartier bridge. Witnesses then claim the result that it rocketed into the sky. No body, no motorcycle in the waters of the Gulf are not found…

Rarely happen to read a work similar to that which has been created by Dina Rubina. “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” reviews, which in General can be described as enthusiastic, combines the amazing realism surrounding life with a deep mystical nature of the plot and the overall meaning of the narrative.

Readers unanimously noted the excellent quality Rubinsky prose. If after reading some of the books I want "to cough" language "Handwriting of Leonardo”, “a breath of fresh air”. Write about the wealth of images, great metaphors and deep symbolism of the novel. There are those who style seemed overwhelmed, but they are not left to read, recognizing that the book draws to insomnia.

The people of Kiev in awe of the precision, grace and love the city: it seems that even the indigenous inhabitant of Kiev could not have done it better.

As well As every real book, "the Handwriting of Leonardo,” everyone apparently understood differently, and this is especially noticeable in the dispersion of opinions about the fate of the protagonist.

Some readers have noted only the untimely birth of Anna. Say, if she were born in our days, would become a famous psychic, and life would not be so tragic. Others, on the contrary, reflect on the nature of this gift. Whether the force, who gave the heroine such an unusual ability, force for good? Maybe, that's why the heroine so often says: “You entertained me!”

Readers will find the book a clear religious track and try once again to answer with whom Jacob wrestled in the night and left crippled but not defeated. Those who prefer all scientific approach, hard think about the existence of the mirror and parallel worlds. Some firmly say: “Mysticism”. Other mind: “there is Nothing realistic this book was written". In General, the reading public is far from unity experience, and this is another proof that the book is good and worth reading.

Indifferent attitude to the novel only readers distant from the clues unexplained mysteries of the universe: in the book almost every event has a hidden meaning, one way or another reflect the life of the protagonist. After the publication of the novel “the Handwriting of Leonardo,” the opinions of literary critics described it as the strongest work of Rubina. From it really is impossible to put down: it is as addictive as addictive sometimes mirror – the whole world a cold silver glass.