num_pages: 5
description: A nine-year-old boy is in desperate need to convince his grandfather his only relative (a wayward character who seems to be totally indifferent to the boy's fate) to take him back to his country home. Stealthily he writes a letter to describe the unbearable life he leads in the house of the shoemaker Aliakhin whom he serves as an apprentice for suffering from hunger abuse and humiliation. Finally very pleased with his effort he puts it into an envelope inscribes the address: The village to my grandfather Konstantin Makarych and drops it into a post-box well aware that it is on this precious item that his whole life now totally depends upon.
language: English
title: Vanka
publisher: None