Ice cream in wafer cups

Author: Botheva Maria Alekseevna

Illustrator: Yarzhombek Timofey

Publisher: Publishing House KompasGid, 2013.

ISBN: 978-5-00083-085-7  

Pages: 160 (Offset)

Design

Weight: 288 g

Dimensions: 218x148x12 mm

Foreword by Olga Myaeots        

Ice Cream in Waffle Cups

The End of the World        

Fragile Aristocracy        

Difficult Relationships

Unknown Distances        

Where from, Nina

The Black Metal Yard        

Papa and Lyudmila        

As We Are        

Nina's Mother        

Vitka's Alphabet        

The Lost Sea        

When He Is Gone        

Mom, Vitka and the Inspectors        

Mom's Medal        

Minus Two        

Ice Cream in Waffle Cups

The School on Spichka

The Middle of the Leg        

The Crawler        

They Painted Over Onegin        

The Ceiling        

Two News Stories and Three Tens        

The One-Eyed Extra        

Kutuzov        

Eyelashes and a Gas Mask        

A Miracle and Grandpa Alik        

Saving Gosha Again        

Ten Minutes Before Bed        

"Ice Cream in Waffle Cups" by Maria Botheva is a collection of three poignant and startlingly honest novellas about the lives of teenagers.

The characters in the novella "Ice Cream in Waffle Cups" are an unusual family whose home is open to anyone who finds it difficult to live in the big world.

Children and adults can leave at any moment—to the sea, to the end of the world, to unknown distances... But they always return—to the place where they are loved and awaited. The classmates from "The School on Spichka" make an important discovery together: you can only save others by learning to understand yourself. And the funny and touching girl, the narrator of the novella "A Place for a Holiday," knows how fragile the human soul can be—and exclaims, "Long live the heart!" This book is very difficult to describe—its characters and the circumstances they find themselves in are so unlike one another. It simply has to be read. Read, pausing, reflecting, returning to previous pages, smiling, or struggling to swallow the lump in your throat. And then realizing that you have discovered something important.

In 2013, the book "Ice Cream in Waffle Cups" was named one of the best books of the year by the online resource Bibliogid. It was also named on the long list for the Kangaroo Prize and received a special prize from the V. Krapivin Prize.

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