num_pages: 208
description: This collection of Shukshin's stories depict with gentle humour and humanity, the frustrations, struggles and minor triumphs of the people who migrated, dispossessed and powerless, to the city from the country. It provides a fascinating insight into what ordinary people felt and experienced in the Soviet Union of his day.
language: English
title: Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures
titlecomplete: Roubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Marion Boyars