УРОКИ ЗАВИСТИ. Трилогия «Подруги с Малой Бронной» Книга первая

Sot͡siologam izvestno, chto zavistʹ - samoe silʹnoe chelovecheskoe chuvstvo. A Li͡uba Malanina znaet ėto po sobstvennoĭ zhizni. Podrugi, s kotorymi ona vyrosla v moskovskom dome na Maloĭ Bronnoĭ, s detstva otnosi͡atsi͡a k neĭ, dochke domrabotnit͡sy, pokrovitelʹstvenno. Vo vsi͡akom sluchae, ona v ėtom uverena i zaviduet im, i ne khochet provesti zhiznʹ, podobno svoeĭ mame, "kak myshʹ za venikom". Vremi͡a radikalʹnoĭ obshchestvennoĭ peremeny v soedinenii s prirodnoĭ zavistʹi͡u daet neozhidannyĭ rezulʹtat: Li͡uba meni͡aet svoi͡u zhiznʹ bolee chem polnostʹi͡u. Ostaetsi͡a tolʹko dozhdatʹsi͡a schastʹi͡a…

Sociologists know that envy is the most powerful human feeling. And Lyuba Malanina knows this from her own life. Her friends, with whom she grew up in a Moscow house on Malaya Bronnaya, have been patronizing her, the daughter of a housekeeper, since childhood. In any case, she is sure of it and envies them, and does not want to spend her life like her mother, "like a mouse behind a broom." The time of radical social change, combined with natural envy, gives an unexpected result: Lyuba changes her life more than completely. It remains only to wait for happiness…