City thing

Bad news: Marusya is sent to a remote Siberian village for the whole summer to “get some fresh air.” This is a real test for a city thing! How to live without running water and the Internet? Where does the hot water turn on in the bathhouse? Is a horse-drawn cart not a figure of speech, but a real means of transportation? And where to wear all the dresses and sandals that were packed into suitcases? Marusya is simply infuriated by everything in this village! Instead of the promised nature, there are beds of cucumbers everywhere. Instead of Baikal there are free-roaming cows with a menacing look. What to do here all summer? And then there are the locals with their stupid poetry evening...
Sofia Remez - prose writer, art critic, laureate of the. V. P. Kataeva. Familiar to readers of "Five Quarters" from the books "Silent Games", "Hello, it's Gosha!", "The Light Bulb and the Shtaketin". Ivan Shipnigov - writer, journalist, winner of the Moscow Art Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the National Bestseller, NOS, and Yasnaya Polyana awards. Sophia and Ivan wrote a touching and at the same time funny story about friendship and first love. The story was complemented by atmospheric illustrations by Natalia Akimova.
For middle and high school age.