The Dead Are Not Avenged, or The Joke

10 hrs. 12 min.

Language Russian

Author Natalia Andreeva

Narrator Natalia Litvinova

Description

Ludochka Salnikova loved to make fun of evil from childhood—and nobody corrected her. Neither teachers, classmates, nor her father’s friends. After all, he held a high position. And when she grew up, she continued joking with acquaintances and coworkers. She rarely joked with her husband—Timur was too handsome and mysterious. But sweet life ended in an instant! Ludochka traveled with Timur to the Caucasus. She went skiing alone and barely avoided an avalanche. Ludochka decided to punish her husband. Let him think she’s dead! She made it to Moscow, and there learned that her husband has had a mistress for a long time. Ludochka decided to be “reborn” later—at her own funeral, especially since she changed her appearance. But there she heard nothing but nasty things about herself from her stepmother and from coworkers—even her father didn’t say a kind word. Nothing—she would get them back! And how! After all, nobody would suspect the “deceased” in anything. And her revenge turned out to be quite successful…

Previously the novel was published under the title “A Joke.”