Dinka Bids Farewell to Childhood

In this book, readers meet the grown-up heroes of Valentina Oseeva's story "Dinka."
Dinka is already fifteen. The exams are over, summer vacation is ahead—it seems to be the most carefree time. But even to the peaceful хутор where the Arsenyev family lives, the echoes of World War I reach, and there is a sense of pre-revolutionary tension. The impoverished soldier widows, Dinka's friend Fedorka, who is being forced into marriage, the little orphan Iyoshka—Dinka sees how hard the fate of these people is and does not want to come to terms with injustice. With all her passion, she rushes to help, showing inventiveness and courage.
And she will also have to make a difficult, very difficult choice about whom to give her heart to…
As in the first book, the images of the characters were created by illustrator Yulia Kazarnitskaya.