Someone Cries All Night Behind the Wall

The novel by Aleksandr Yermolaev is a collection of stories about the most ordinary people working in the most ordinary Kemerovo school. About the principal whom everyone behind her back calls Kuchya. About the librarian, Darya Anatolyevna, who suddenly had millions fall into her lap. About two old math teachers who hate each other their whole lives, but no one knows the reason for their feud.

And about the new teacher Konstantin Fyodorovich, who after moving to another city faces all kinds of difficulties—from problems with the schoolchildren to problems with sleep—almost every night the crying behind the wall wakes him up.