The Opposite Lane

Fourteen-year-old Luciana lives in a suburb of Melbourne Australia and studies at a Catholic school for girls. Born blind, Luciana is gifted with a deep intellect and, thanks to the technological progress, can live to the full extent. However she is anxious about her reliance on others and worried about the future, fearing that her disability may hinder her from finding a place in society and starting a family.

Twenty-eight-year-old Max emigrated to Australia form Russia. He fails to find application for his inquisitive creative mind and has to live on government allowances.

Luciana and Max enjoy communicating with each other by email, but fail to meet in person, although the vicissitudes of fate confront them again and again. They both struggle to find their place in society, but find themselves in rather awkward situations instead...

The novel consists of two parts; Part One is narrated by Luciana, while Part Two contains Max's notes. The humour of the characters is sad and ironic, sometimes rising to outright sarcasm. Their comments are honest, though not void of certain controversy, bias and exaggeration. Complementing each other, they allow to observe the described events from different viewpoints and obtain impartial judgment about the heroes and their actions.

The novel "contains nude scenes and references to adult themes," but its scope is far wider than that.

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