The Tutor
15 hrs. 4 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Bruce Holsinger
Author
Bruce Holsinger
Narrator
Alexandra Dolganova
Narrator
Alexandra Dolganova
Description
In a small provincial town called Crystal, four best friends live together in their own way—through 10 years of friendship they’ve seen it all, from fire and water to copper pipes. Rose is an ambitious doctor-neurologist, unhappy with her husband, an unsuccessful writer. She tries to save their crumbling marriage for the sake of her daughter.
Samanta is a wealthy housewife who has everything anyone could wish for. People consider her and her husband the most enviable couple in town. But behind the perfect facade of their marriage lies a terrible secret.
Azra divorced her husband when she learned he was cheating on her with the nanny. She is always ready to support and listen to her friends in hard times, but she isn’t sure they’re ready to do the same for her.
Lauren, after her husband’s death, focused all her attention on raising her chess-playing son—but completely forgot about her older teenage daughter, who has a lot of problems.
One day, a new school opens in their town. Admission there guarantees entry to the best universities in the country. The entrance exams are too difficult, and only one out of a hundred will get in.
Friendship turns into rivalry: each is ready to do anything so that her child becomes a student of an elite school. But in the heat of confrontation it’s easy to lose not only your closest people, but also yourself.
“A wise and instructive story about how tough competition can turn old friends into people who lie, envy, weave intrigues, and rejoice at troubles in someone else’s family. For the children in this book, the entrance exam becomes an exam for their parents—an exam in humanity. And they don’t pass it.” — Anna Bykova, educator, psychologist, art therapist, author of the children’s upbringing book series “Lazy Mom”.
Samanta is a wealthy housewife who has everything anyone could wish for. People consider her and her husband the most enviable couple in town. But behind the perfect facade of their marriage lies a terrible secret.
Azra divorced her husband when she learned he was cheating on her with the nanny. She is always ready to support and listen to her friends in hard times, but she isn’t sure they’re ready to do the same for her.
Lauren, after her husband’s death, focused all her attention on raising her chess-playing son—but completely forgot about her older teenage daughter, who has a lot of problems.
One day, a new school opens in their town. Admission there guarantees entry to the best universities in the country. The entrance exams are too difficult, and only one out of a hundred will get in.
Friendship turns into rivalry: each is ready to do anything so that her child becomes a student of an elite school. But in the heat of confrontation it’s easy to lose not only your closest people, but also yourself.
“A wise and instructive story about how tough competition can turn old friends into people who lie, envy, weave intrigues, and rejoice at troubles in someone else’s family. For the children in this book, the entrance exam becomes an exam for their parents—an exam in humanity. And they don’t pass it.” — Anna Bykova, educator, psychologist, art therapist, author of the children’s upbringing book series “Lazy Mom”.
