Publisher's Synopsis
USSR, 1953: Yuri Zipit lives in the staff block of The Kapital Zoo with his Papa, a specialist in animal neurology. Although Yuri is only twelve and a half, he knows plenty too. He knows an impressive array of new and complicated words - and the importance of guarding his tongue. He knows his pride in his father - and that it's a crime to love your family more than you love Socialism. But he doesn't know what's just around the corner for him and his Papa, when they are dragged off in the middle of the night to visit some very important people...
