Short Fiction · Character
Petka
A boy on his first railway journey, pressed against the window with wonder, while the adults around him sigh, scold, and bury themselves in newspapers.
supporting
First appearance: short fiction
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A young boy apprenticed to a barber; experiences the countryside for the first time and is transformed by nature, but returns to his dull city life.
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Petka travels by train for the first time, his curiosity so palpable that a fellow passenger glowers and Nadejda must apologize for him. He has spent three years with a barber, and the journey opens a world whose…
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- Other
Character groups
- Diverse Social and Religious Roles
- Military and Religious Authority
- Protagonist
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