The Theory of Improbability
10 hrs. 53 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Victoria Lederman
Author
Victoria Lederman
Narrator
Yulia Yablonskaya
Narrator
Yulia Yablonskaya
Description
“Back to the Future,” you say? “Back to your own probability” is a much harder task! And Matvey will have to solve it alone, because it all began late in the evening when he stepped outside for a minute and ran into local hooligans…
That Monday didn’t go right at all: in the morning, the internet was turned off, at school he was kept after lessons, and then his mom hit him with a terrible piece of news—now they’ll have a stranger girl living with them! How could such a day end?
By fleeing from three bandits who want to take Matvey’s phone; by riding in a half-empty bus to the outskirts of the city; by an desperate attempt to hide in an abandoned concrete pipe. And then—landing in an alternative universe where no such person as Matvey Dobrovolsky exists, and instead there’s a girl named Miloslava!
There’s no help to expect: who would believe the fairy tale of a seventh-grader lost between worlds? Not the teachers, not classmates, not parents, not friends (who, anyway, Matvey doesn’t have). Unless you count the strange, forever troublemaking guy, Veni Vatrushkin. Now that’s someone who knows fictional plots!
Victoria Lederman writes fantasy just as well as her hero. And the new novella “The Theory of Unlikelihoods” is a great example of engaging, modern, and gently instructive storytelling.
That Monday didn’t go right at all: in the morning, the internet was turned off, at school he was kept after lessons, and then his mom hit him with a terrible piece of news—now they’ll have a stranger girl living with them! How could such a day end?
By fleeing from three bandits who want to take Matvey’s phone; by riding in a half-empty bus to the outskirts of the city; by an desperate attempt to hide in an abandoned concrete pipe. And then—landing in an alternative universe where no such person as Matvey Dobrovolsky exists, and instead there’s a girl named Miloslava!
There’s no help to expect: who would believe the fairy tale of a seventh-grader lost between worlds? Not the teachers, not classmates, not parents, not friends (who, anyway, Matvey doesn’t have). Unless you count the strange, forever troublemaking guy, Veni Vatrushkin. Now that’s someone who knows fictional plots!
Victoria Lederman writes fantasy just as well as her hero. And the new novella “The Theory of Unlikelihoods” is a great example of engaging, modern, and gently instructive storytelling.
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