The Hesychast

Sometimes, the only way to get rid of yourself is to climb higher than your fear. Vlad has everything anyone could want: a career on stage, a woman who loves him, a carefully built life. He also has a secret that he keeps buried under alcohol, under memorized lines, under the silence of an empty apartment. On a rainy night, his fear kills a man. Not with his hand - but enough that he can never sleep the same again. He flees. To the mountains, to an isolated hermitage where he thinks he can disappear. But the silence he sought as liberation proves to be harder than the world he left behind - and the only way forward is the one he has been trying to avoid for a lifetime: to face what he has done. The Hesychast is a novel about guilt, faith, and the real price of forgiveness - not the one that ends when you leave the courtroom, but the one that is asked, on your knees, every day, with no guarantee that it will ever come. How much are you willing to climb, to forgive yourself?