The Story of a Red-Haired Girl

“The Tale of the Ginger Girl” is the first and most well-known book by the classic of children’s literature Lidia Anatolyevna Budogoskaya. All of Lidia Budogoskaya’s books are based on real events. “The Tale of the Ginger Girl” is no exception. It is the story of a teenage girl with the unusual name Eva Kyun: complicated relationships with her father, with her gymnasium schoolgirl friends, first love, and a passionate desire to be free from the dramatic circumstances of life. The story takes place in a small provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. However, if you set aside the time period, it seems as though the book was written today.