I am Carina

Author: Leo Tolstoy Publication date: 2023 Book category: Novel Number of pages: 704 Publisher: Dar Al-Saada for Publishing and Distribution Cover type: Paperback Book summary: Tolstoy opens the novel Anna Karenina with the famous sentence: "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Various human models float on the surface of the event in the novel, most of them suffering from the disease of classism, nobility, heavy inheritance, and human models. These are often unbalanced, unhealthy models, interacting with many internal conflicts, most notably between heart and mind or between love and duty, and between superficial appearances and true essence, as well as between the backwardness of the clergy and the Enlightenment movement among Russian intellectuals. What is unique in Leo Tolstoy's writings is that you, as a reader, will not be influenced by Tolstoy's completely neutral stance towards each character; rather, the writer leaves it to you to determine your opinion and stance, sparking discussion among all who read the novel. Therefore, Anna Karenina is not like all other novels, where the reader is usually influenced by the author's opinion of the character, unlike Leo Tolstoy's writings.