Title: Playing a part
Description: Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart--his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.

Grishka grew up in the world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart, and Grishka no longer knows what role he plays. The plot contains negative stereotypes.
Subjects: Puppet theater, Juvenile fiction, Puppeteers, Marionettes, Fiction, Gays, Identity, Identity (Psychology), Children's fiction, Identity, fiction, Soviet union, fiction, Homosexuality, fiction
Places: Russia (Federation)