Grant Matevosyan was born in 1935 in a small village of Ahnadzor. He finished school and received higher education in Yerevan. In 1967, his first collection of stories and novellas “August” was published there. In it—as in his later works—the main theme of the writer’s creativity is declared: the modern Armenian village. Its main characters are also set out: peasants, tillers of the land, and shepherds, living mostly in the village of Tsmakut. By inventing the village and giving it a name, Matevosyan sought to become its chronicler.
In the novella, the forest ranger Rostom Sargsyan is not afraid to stand up against greed, cynicism, and indifference that destroy people’s belief and hope. The novella is permeated with anxiety, pain, and love for people’s fates.