On the Sunny Side of the Street

Dina Rubina — a contemporary prose writer, laureate of the Russian award «Big Book». The novel «On the Sunny Side of the Street» was adapted into a film in 2011.

From the large Shcheglov family, only eight-year-old Katya and her brother Sasha remained after the blockade of Leningrad. They were evacuated to sunny Tashkent. Having barely survived starvation, Katya decided to hold on tightly to this life and not give her own away to anyone. Thus, in her youth, she became a talented con artist. Even the birth of her daughter did not calm Katya down.

Her daughter also decided to hold on tightly to this life. And her passion for drawing helped her. In the future, she will become the world-renowned artist Vera Shcheglova. But for now, she is just Verka. Verka, who is left alone during her mother's long «business trips», who picks up an intelligent drunk uncle Misha from the street, and who still has to uncover a family secret.

This book — is not just a story about the fate of two ambiguous heroines. This book — is a confession of love to Tashkent, the city of Dina Rubina's childhood and youth.