In the movie theater there worked a staff member who, in the dark, used a flashlight to guide latecomers to the seats indicated on their tickets. For this, the latecomers paid him tips.
One day, a certain viewer didn’t pay the staff member.
He seated him in his place, bent over him in the dark, and whispered into his ear: “The murderer is an accountant…”
To avoid spoiling the book “Kevo rka-the-heavenly” with its description, we’ll only say this: it’s a book about loyalty and betrayal, about a love that never happened, about loss and about finding yourself again. Four kidnapped earthly children pass through incredible adventures on the planet Aldebaran and return to Earth as completely different adults.
If you mentally put the laughter in this book on one side of the scales and sadness on the other, it’s impossible to say which will outweigh. In any case, the end of the book—though quite happy—is still sad. What can you do. As they say, “Our planet isn’t very well equipped for fun”…
It’s worth adding that the book was written back in 1970, when trees were big, the grass was green, and the distance was misty and bright.