The Broken Boy

10 hrs. 38 min.

Language Russian

Author Alina Stepanova

Narrator Valeria Egorova

Description

Alina Stepanova is a well-known Moscow realtor, blogger, and simply a caring person with an active life position. Her motto is: "Born. Gave birth. Gave birth. Gave birth. Gave birth. Realtor. Writer. I work. I investigate. I draw. I enjoy. I complain. I laugh." In real life, Alina is constantly—without meaning to—pulled into detective adventures, taking the most direct part in their investigation, which the media regularly write and film about. But this time you’re not faced with a creepy real-estate story—you’re faced with a work of fiction, a travel detective story.

The plot is cleverly built around a strange disappearance of a boy from a famous bathing pool in the center of the Hungarian capital. Even though the action takes place in Budapest, the novel features quite a number of our compatriots.

Where did the child go? Who eats carrot soup three times a day? Why have children if you’re planning to poison yourself? These and other questions must be answered by the main heroine—a woman who becomes a detective unwillingly—brave, ironic, sometimes outrageous, and sometimes even sentimental, in the height of her years.

Attention! The book’s heroes don’t really know English, but they are forced to communicate in it as an international language. The author does not take responsibility for their mistakes and pronunciation!