Интердевочка

The word "interdevochka" entered our language with the light hand of Vladimir Kunin, who told the story of currency prostitute Tanya Zaitseva, who loved her mother, a literature teacher, and the city of Leningrad, where she lived, but very much wanted to leave the USSR, where everything is built on lies and humiliation. The novella was published in the magazine "Aurora" in 1988 and became a sensation. Today, nearly forty years later, it reads wonderfully, the characters are still interesting and evoke sympathy, and the unique Kunin style, intonations, and expressions continue to charm. "The Rib of Adam", "My Grandfather, My Father and I Myself", included in this book, are stories about those very "little people" whose problems and joys are so similar to ours, even if they lived in the last century.