The Poplars

10 hrs. 55 min.

Language Russian

Author Vladislav Krapivin

Narrator Igor Knyazev

Description

By the shore of a city pond rises a complex of skyscrapers, the main one of which is popularly called “Tooth.” Inside, there is neither finishing nor permanent electricity, no apartments, no offices—people are afraid to move into a building which, rumors say, could collapse at any moment because of construction mistakes. And in which, generally, “something is wrong.”

Nevertheless, there are residents in the Tooth. There lives a magical People who were settled there by third-grader Tenka Resnitsyn. Here, too, found shelter a boy nicknamed Kabul, escaping many troubles.

In fact, the young inhabitants of the million-strong city of Eisenverkenbaum have more than enough troubles. And one of them is the fast-growing system of YU-YU, that is, “juvenile justice.”

A new novel by Vladislav Krapivin, touching on YU-YU, raises a number of issues traditional for the author as well. These are the fate of homeless children, the need for merciful treatment of animals, and the protection of old trees—which, for some reason, are so hated by officials these days. It is also a confrontation between society and authorities, which more and more often leads to brutal clashes…