'My Children' is the second novel by Guzel Yakhina, the most striking debutante in the history of modern Russian literature, winner of the 'Big Book' and 'Yasnaya Polyana' awards for the bestseller 'Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes.'

'In her first novel, which quickly became famous and, a year after its debut, was already living in thirty translations and at the top of international literary awards, Guzel Yakhina threw us into Siberia and, in doing so, showed the Tatar spirit in herself, and in Russia, and, one might say, in all of us. And now she immerses the reader in the cold Volga water, in damp moss and peat, in swells and slime, in Ethel-Bulga-Su, and her 'folk thought,' like the Volga, is deep, and it probes the German spirit in herself, in Russia, and, one might say, in all of us. 'The plot is actually centered around love, death, history, politics, war, and creativity...'
Elena Kostyukovich

The Volga region, 1920s–1930s. Jacob Bach is a Russian German, a teacher in the Gnadental colony. He has long since turned his back on the world, raising his only daughter, Anche, on a secluded farm and writing magical tales that miraculously and tragically come true.

'I wanted to tell about the world of the German Volga region—bright, original, alive—about a world once created by newcomers in a foreign country, and today lost in the past. But this is also a story about how great love gives rise to fears in our hearts and at the same time helps us overcome them.'
Guzel Yakhina