Festival

14 hrs. 6 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Alekseyev

Narrator Lev Lunkov

1951. Moscow is preparing for the World Festival of Youth and Students, and Yuri Zharov—an ex-football coach from 2005 who died and then transferred into the body of a young Soviet athlete—continues his double life. He is already the world hockey champion, the leader of the Gorky Torpedo, a rising star of Soviet football, and a man who knows far too well what comes next.

Ahead are matches for the national team, the Centropa Cup, the Spartakiad, a boxing ring, the European Champions Cup, and festival Moscow—where real historical figures, foreign stars, Party overseers, and mystical Observers will be alongside him, keeping score of his mission. Behind the scenes are the Central Committee, the KGB, cooperatives, shortages, great hopes, and great fears of the postwar era.

This is a novel about Soviet sport, love, friendship, betrayal, and the cost of victory. About a man trying to play by the rules of the past, knowing the future— and about a time when every match, every festival day, and every choice can become a step toward gold or toward tragedy.

1. The Pill (narrated by Lev Lunkov) 2. Rosa (narrated by Lev Lunkov) 3. Nastya (narrated by Lev Lunkov) 4. The Mission (narrated by Lev Lunkov) 5. Festival

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