Farewell, Cuckoo (collection)

The audiobook “Goodbye, Cuckoo!” was created at the ARDIS studio from Dmitry Bykov’s stories—an accomplished modern prose writer and poet, author of well-known novels and collections of poems, children’s fairy tales, and biographical books about Boris Pasternak and Bulat Okudzhava, as well as an eccentric journalist and public figure.

The audio collection includes nine stories from different years, diverse in genre. Among them are tales in verse and in prose, funny and frightening works, where satire coexists with lyricism, and the grotesque with reality. A domestic story turns into a historical tale or a philosophical parable, while a love melodrama turns into a psychological thriller…