Cartoons

6 hrs. 45 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Elizarov

Narrator Mitika Zakurin

Description

The main character of the new novel is a Soviet teenager of the late eighties. The action takes place on the outskirts of an industrial megacity, where the neighborhood toughs make money by showing “cartoons” to distracted citizens. But the “work about childhood” transforms into a surreal nightmare. Reality is replaced by mystification: space and time mutate, the drawn world of a filmstrip comes alive, revealing an abyss...