Bitter Quest. Volume 3

One of the most unusual novels by Alexandra Marinina. While preparing to write it, the author organized focus groups consisting of young people who had never lived in the USSR. Goal: to understand how they would have acted in one situation or another if the 1970s were outside the window.

Imagine that you found yourself in the USSR. The old good seventies: stability and calm, free education, lunch in the cafeteria for one ruble, ice cream for 19 kopecks… A dream!? Well, the Quest will show…

The organizers selected several young men and women to take part in a very unusual experiment—a trip to the 1970s. In the house where the volunteers will live, the life of the “developed socialism” era is recreated in full detail. They read plays by Maxim Gorky, eat Soviet products, wear Soviet clothes, and are bored to death at “Komsomol meetings,” deprived of their smartphones and other gadgets. From the outside, it looks like a fun adventure. But for what purpose was all this invented? And how will it end for each of them in the end?