Communal apartments in Leningrad are a unique universe with their own joys, conflicts, and secrets. Here people lived through quarrels and reconciliations, celebrated weddings, and cooked a shared soup.
This audiobook contains warm, nostalgic stories about families, neighbors, and the time that has passed.
The novels by Zhanna Vishnevskaya “Children of Voínov” and “Communal Conforsky” are family stories that develop in communal apartments on Voínova Street in Leningrad.
Tenderness and irony fill the pages as they tell about love for large, friendly families that lived in these apartments.
Behind old doors birthdays were celebrated, people and dogs got married, the residents quarreled, made up, exchanged gossip and recipes in the shared kitchens.
The book is dedicated to grandmothers and grandfathers, parents, neighbors, and relatives—as well as to the beloved city and the country that no longer exists.