Happy Moscow

Happy Moscow turns out to be not a city, but a girl—and, what’s more, not exactly a happy one. A former street kid throws herself obsessively into every endeavor of the newly born Soviet Union. She stubbornly tries to combine the struggle for the ideals of communism with carnal love. And you will be able to learn how the story of Moscow ended—what ultimately won: the youth of the new world, or the youth of a Komsomol body—by listening to the book. Andrei Platonov’s novel “Happy Moscow” has been restored from a manuscript kept in his private home archive. The novel was written with a pencil on gray paper, on pages torn from school notebooks and ledger books (most often on both sides), on free pages of manuscripts of his early poems… Almost all of A. Platonov’s notebooks from 1932 to 1936 preserved notes related to the novel “Happy Moscow.” A comedy from Moscow life, where Soviet engineers and bourgeois specialists act, as well as the new Bostaleva—Suenita, in the process of work will turn into a tragedy from ordinary people’s life.