The mother of four-year-old Arina suddenly leaves on a business trip and leaves her daughter in the village in the care of her old grandmother.
The mother of four-year-old Arina suddenly leaves on a business trip and leaves her daughter in the village in the care of her old grandmother. The girl will have to independently settle in a huge and unusual village world, herself to seek contact with its inhabitants and cope with a previously unfamiliar feeling of loneliness. A touching and poetic novel-fairy tale of a classic of Russian prose will enchant adult readers with gentle humor, accuracy of details and psychologism, and children will surely enjoy the amazing, sometimes creepy, but invariably happily ending adventures of the little heroine.
Octopus, 224 p.