Tubplier

9 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author David Markish

Narrator Maxim Gorbachev

Description

Back in the old days—when tuberculosis had already learned to cure, but antibiotics were still not available to everyone—journalist Vlad Gordin, who had conveniently evaded the army a few years earlier, was found to have a mild case of tuberculosis in his lungs. The sanatorium “Samshytovaya Grove,” not free journalistic wandering, is where he will be staying from now on. Tuberculosis sufferers from all over the country are here under strict control. To brighten up the bleak everyday life, the intelligentsia form an order of “Tubpliers” and begin holding secret meetings and having fun. Among them, a snitch quickly appears and turns the order in… The Tubpliers decide to walk to the sea. Gordin goes along—although he knows his days are numbered…