Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeCup View Post
If you want to follow the entire life of a person and keep it not boring it will be quite a hard task.
Actually I wanted to highlight key, memorable events in the lives of the main characters. There will be, of course, many such events and they will be described with lots of details. Besides, don't forget that this book will have a special flavor for the intended readers (foreigners who learn Russian), because: 1. They not just read a book, they learn the language it is written in; and 2. It describes the life in (Post-Soviet) Russia.
Of course this book will be boring for native Russians

Quote Originally Posted by CoffeeCup View Post
If you want to follow the entire life of a person and keep it not boring it will be quite a hard task. Let's add some science fiction to speed up the process: for example make a protagonist not a human but an animal, a dog (for an example). Then let's subject the dog to a sort of special medical treatment, implant a human Pituitary gland to the dog (for an example). And assume that the dog will be gradually change his behavior from the dog's kind to the human kind. And therefore the language skills of the protagonist will grow gradually.
An interesting idea, but isn't that something like "The heart of a dog"?