The Crossroads

18 hrs. 28 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Yury Slepukhin

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

“The Crossroads” is the first book of Yuri Slepukhin’s tetralogy about World War II. This cycle is a large-scale canvas in which the author vividly and credibly depicts a picture of the pre-war days, Nazi occupation, underground activity, labor camps, and everyday survival. The main characters of the first novel are ordinary teenagers who, at 16–17 years old, are sure that nothing is impossible in the world—and that their whole life is still ahead of them.

Tanya Nikolayeva—bubbly, confident, and determined—plans to go to a philology faculty. The serious and driven Seryozha Dezhnеv dreams of creating the world’s first automatic factory, and Lyusya Zemtsеva dreams of becoming a doctor of physics and mathematics—just like her mother. These kids had everything—hopes, plans, friendships, and first love—but in the morning after graduation night they learned that the war had begun.

Slepukhin’s dynamic, vivid, exciting books have not aged a bit, and now feel just as relevant as they did half a century ago. Listen to real 20th-century classics performed brilliantly by Aleksey Bagdasarov.