Friend April

9 hrs. 10 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Eduard Verkin

Narrator Yury Grigoryev

Description

E. Verkhin’s novella “April’s Friend” is a story about the difficult life of the present, with its grimaces and “lead-like nastiness.” It’s about how hard it is for a teenager to live on a small railway crossing, where even a piece of bread is earned with great difficulty, where the hero is surrounded by people who are not clean in hand or soul, where he—still very young—has to care not only for himself, but also for his loved ones: sometimes for pathetic, and sometimes outright vile people. But the hero stands like a rock because a pure first love keeps him on his feet.

The work was included in the list of outstanding world books “White Ravens-2012,” compiled by the Munich International Children’s Library, and it also won the S. Mikhalkov competition for the best work for teenagers.