The Story of Ustinya Sobakina, Who Never Existed

3 hrs. 13 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Galina Shcherbakova

Narrator Evgenia Dobrovolskaya

Description

Don’t be born pretty—happiness isn’t in beauty; don’t drink water from someone else’s face… It seems as if all these words were invented just to comfort “ugly ducks.” You can repeat it like a mantra every day, memorize it by heart—but there’s little point. This world is open only to pretty girls. At least that’s what the main character of the story, Dita Sinitsyna, believed. God didn’t give her an attractive appearance, but instead rewarded her with an outstanding mind. People called her simply: “a girl with good brains.” And she decided to use them a hundred percent—to get what others are given only as a reward for simply being happy with possessing a pretty face. She worked out such complicated and cunning schemes to achieve her goals that even any talented strategist would envy her. But the trouble is: in any, even the most carefully planned scheme, there are always weak spots—and then the chances of success become minimal.

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