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Boris Akunjin is the pseudonym of Grigori Chhartishvili, a Muscovite of Georgian origin. Many of his novels have been screened, including "The State Counselor" starring the famous Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov and actor Oleg Menshikov.
The book "El Hakim" by John Knittel is one of his most famous novels, combining the exotic setting of Egypt with universal themes of humanity, medicine, morality, and spirituality.
A story about family love, about memory's ability to keep the truth alive, and about the danger of denying memory. At the same time extensive and intimate, comic and tragic, it is a kaleidoscopic, deeply emotional saga about home and the heart.
This is an excellent romantic story about a failed marriage, adultery without passion and the suicide of a young woman who fantasized about an exciting life, waiting in vain for a change in the small-town everyday life.
