The Legless Girl
4 hrs. 35 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Sofia Sinitskaya
Author
Sofia Sinitskaya
Narrator
Kirill Radtsig
Narrator
Sofia Sinitskaya
Description
“Barefoot” — a dazzling and piercing coming-of-age story about growing up, revenge, and virtual reality.
Sometimes reality is something you want to escape from. And that’s not surprising—especially if you’re a dreamy teenager raised without parents. That’s how Kolya ends up in a virtual role-playing game, where he and other participants become knights, witches, and spirits and embark on astonishing adventures—while above the world floats a mysterious figure of the admin-demiurge, whose identity remains a secret. But “de-virtualization” won’t be long in coming, and Kolya meets a St. Petersburg artist, Marfusha, and Kirill—beautiful, charismatic, sharp-tongued, and acrobatically agile, a successful culinary blogger who has no legs. And then reality happens to them too—a fantasmagoric, merciless, tragicomic reality, far more unbelievable than any invented world.
Sofya Sinitskaya is a writer from St. Petersburg, a winner of the Gogol Prize, a finalist of the “NOS,” “Big Book,” “Yasnaya Polyana,” and “National Bestseller” awards.
Sometimes reality is something you want to escape from. And that’s not surprising—especially if you’re a dreamy teenager raised without parents. That’s how Kolya ends up in a virtual role-playing game, where he and other participants become knights, witches, and spirits and embark on astonishing adventures—while above the world floats a mysterious figure of the admin-demiurge, whose identity remains a secret. But “de-virtualization” won’t be long in coming, and Kolya meets a St. Petersburg artist, Marfusha, and Kirill—beautiful, charismatic, sharp-tongued, and acrobatically agile, a successful culinary blogger who has no legs. And then reality happens to them too—a fantasmagoric, merciless, tragicomic reality, far more unbelievable than any invented world.
Sofya Sinitskaya is a writer from St. Petersburg, a winner of the Gogol Prize, a finalist of the “NOS,” “Big Book,” “Yasnaya Polyana,” and “National Bestseller” awards.
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