Fedya Bulkin, the Heavenly Postman

6 hrs. 47 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alexandra Nikolaenko

Narrator Maksim Balakhnenkov

Description

A small novel. Winner of the “Russian Booker” prize.

The author’s full edition

Alexandra Nikolaenko is an artist and a writer. She graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry and became one of the youngest members of the Moscow Union of Artists. She illustrated children’s and adult books. Her works are in private collections in Russia, France, and the UK. In 2017, she became a laureate of the “Russian Booker” for her debut novel “Kill Bobrykin.”

Fedyа Bulkin lives with his grandmother, while his parents are on a business trip—building the City of Heaven. “Mom and dad are my geologists. Without geologists, there’s nowhere in construction. They’re освоюють [mastering] the Soviet people’s new territories—and what territories!” Fedyа’s main dream is to get there, to them. To do that, he learns the multiplication table, writes letters to Santa Claus and to Lenin, argues with God, and, of course, grows up—without forgetting to put money aside in a piggy bank cat for a ticket to the City of Heaven. To meet.

The novel “The Heavenly Postman Fedy Bulkin” is about an endless summer with fragrant wild strawberries and an endless winter waiting for New Year’s. It’s about parents who are already gone—and about the grandmother who is always nearby, even if she’s “no longer new.” It’s about such brave and honest children’s thoughts about justice and death. And about the idea that everyone will always be together, like in Fedyа’s note to God about us.