The Transformative Power of Love

This novel is a story of the transformative power of love of how Nick Mitya who was nourished by a patriarchal religiously bigoted sexually chauvinist materialist and hypocritical culture is transformed into a compassionate caring tolerant and honest human being. This story is a vivid depiction of the challenges struggles and obstacles that stand in the way of Nicks endeavor to liberate himself from the oppressive traditions customs beliefs and values of that culture and how the patient tolerant confident healing fire of love illuminated Nicks mind with the light of truth enlivened his heart with the warmth of humanity and armed his will with the courage to be himself. This same love is also a fertile soil for the growth of a tender yet passionate romantic love between a German scholar Johannes Mitya and a Syrian political science graduate Tina Sarkisian. The growth of this love adds luster and nobility to love as a transformative power and as an essential condition of human happiness.