On a Plane with an Ostrich

5 hrs. 32 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Anna Nikolskaya

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Who is a teenager? A child or already an adult? Or maybe someone stuck halfway… Vіlka is thirteen. She has a “green” father—an ozone-hole hunter—and a despotic grandmother who listens in on other people’s phone conversations. And earlier, Vіlka had a mother, but, it seems, she ran off with a traveling circus. Once, Vіlka was sent to England to learn sense from a certain Jackson family. But Vіlka isn’t foolish—she understands everything: she was simply disposed of. Her father decided to get married, and soon he’ll have a new child. Why does he need an old one now? Trying to understand her own feelings and her relationships with her loved ones, Vіlka learns to live in a foreign country, grows up, and—unexpectedly for everyone (and especially for herself)—discovers a terrible family secret. On the pages of her diary, Vіlka, with her characteristic temperament, will tell about two unforgettable summer months that turned her entire life upside down.