Next Stop – Malakhovka
9 hrs. 11 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Tatyana Khokhtina
Author
Tatyana Khokhtina
Narrator
Elena Shemet
Narrator
Elena Shemet
Description
Welcome to Malakhovka!
Tatyana Khokhrina is a subtle and ironic storyteller with a recognizable tone. She leads the reader through stories of her slightly comical, sometimes absurd, yet always very vivid and touching characters. The most important thing, however, is how sincerely she feels about them: her love is palpable on every page and is easily passed on to the reader. That is why, while reading, you find yourself laughing, then feeling sad, then sympathizing, then getting indignant—and when you close the book on the last page, you almost certainly open it again to reread the most precious story. Once you’ve been in Malakhovka, you want to return there again and again.
Tatyana Khokhrina is a real writer, and for me, a Muscovite, her voice sounds strangely familiar: it carries the ordinary, everyday Moscow Region atmosphere in it. Malakhovka is a legendary dacha station, a place for summer outings of city families. The author enthusiastically weaves together echoes of other people’s destinies, where old-fashioned characters confidently take center stage, while the inconspicuous grayness of everyday life suddenly flares up with flashes of inextinguishable wit.
Veniamin Smehov
If I see a new publication by Tatyana Khokhrina, I can’t simply pass it by. It is always a joy for the soul and a true “festival of the heart.” She is distinguished by a rare sense of humor and subtle self-irony—sure signs of great intelligence—and also by depth and masterful command of words. Her sentences are exact and honed, as if already polished for print. And the topics she writes about are so recognizable and vivid that it feels like an old acquaintance—with both the author and her characters.
Garry Bardin
After reading the first story by Tatyana Khokhrina, I immediately became her ardent admirer. Her prose is witty, tender, and nostalgic—filled with bright, convincing people, and no one remains indifferent. Such texts are meant to be reread, to ponder them, to share in the feelings they evoke—and in my view, that is precisely the hallmark of real prose. If there are heirs of Babel in literature, then Tatyana Khokhrina is the first among them.
Aleksei Motorov
Tatyana Khokhrina is a subtle and ironic storyteller with a recognizable tone. She leads the reader through stories of her slightly comical, sometimes absurd, yet always very vivid and touching characters. The most important thing, however, is how sincerely she feels about them: her love is palpable on every page and is easily passed on to the reader. That is why, while reading, you find yourself laughing, then feeling sad, then sympathizing, then getting indignant—and when you close the book on the last page, you almost certainly open it again to reread the most precious story. Once you’ve been in Malakhovka, you want to return there again and again.
Tatyana Khokhrina is a real writer, and for me, a Muscovite, her voice sounds strangely familiar: it carries the ordinary, everyday Moscow Region atmosphere in it. Malakhovka is a legendary dacha station, a place for summer outings of city families. The author enthusiastically weaves together echoes of other people’s destinies, where old-fashioned characters confidently take center stage, while the inconspicuous grayness of everyday life suddenly flares up with flashes of inextinguishable wit.
Veniamin Smehov
If I see a new publication by Tatyana Khokhrina, I can’t simply pass it by. It is always a joy for the soul and a true “festival of the heart.” She is distinguished by a rare sense of humor and subtle self-irony—sure signs of great intelligence—and also by depth and masterful command of words. Her sentences are exact and honed, as if already polished for print. And the topics she writes about are so recognizable and vivid that it feels like an old acquaintance—with both the author and her characters.
Garry Bardin
After reading the first story by Tatyana Khokhrina, I immediately became her ardent admirer. Her prose is witty, tender, and nostalgic—filled with bright, convincing people, and no one remains indifferent. Such texts are meant to be reread, to ponder them, to share in the feelings they evoke—and in my view, that is precisely the hallmark of real prose. If there are heirs of Babel in literature, then Tatyana Khokhrina is the first among them.
Aleksei Motorov
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