The book will captivate a teenager with its romance, an adult reader will be struck by the firmness of spirit and stamina of the heroine, stubbornly moving towards her goal.
M. Gippenreiter
After graduating from school, a 17-year-old girl declares that she is not going to go to college – she always dreamed of living in a hut in the forest and wants to work in a nature reserve on Lake Baikal. And the mother, respecting her decision, lets her young daughter go into this unknown, where life is not only difficult (you have to heat the stove, chop wood, carry water from the well), but is also truly dangerous. Maria, the daughter of the famous psychologist Yulia Gippenreiter, describes her youthful adventures in bright laconic strokes: here she almost drowns in a storm on Lake Baikal, tames a feral horse, at night she rides a cart through the forest alone. But it doesn’t seem to be anything extreme for her. After all, her father, the famous photographer Vadim Gippenreiter, instilled in her a penchant for a simple “natural” life since childhood – he took his daughter on long hikes, taught him to make a fire, navigate in the forest. The book will captivate a teenager with its romance, an adult reader will be struck by the firmness of spirit and stamina of the heroine, stubbornly moving towards her goal. But most of all – the wisdom and courage of the mother, who managed to accept the unusual choice of her maturing child.
AST, 192 p