Minoes

4 hrs. 9 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Annie Schmidt

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

The events of the book take place in a small Dutch town. A cat named Murli, by pure chance, turns into a girl.
She isn’t different from other people in any way—but she still understands the language of cats and surprises her townspeople with her unusual actions, because in her soul she remains a cat. Murli constantly finds herself in curious and funny situations, since she has to live both in the world of cats and in human society at the same time. To her, relationships between people seem complicated, often unfair, sometimes cruel, but Murli chooses the world of humans because she’s been lucky enough to learn what friendship, loyalty, and love mean.
— No, my dear. Understand me correctly: I’m not forcing you to write about murders and bank robberies. But a town like ours just bursts with little news. You only have to find a way to get it. Let me repeat what I’ve told you before: you’re too timid. You’re shy to approach strangers and ask them questions. It feels like you know how to communicate only with cats…