The story of one of the student dormitories that for many years became home for the characters of this mini-epic is a true gem of modern youth prose.
The main character is a student nicknamed the “Straight-A Student,” and his friends—and, well, his enemies—populate the microcosm of the dorm. Here, as in the heart of a special universe, everything that makes up human life takes place: dorm residents drink wine and write poems, fight, play guitar, wrestle with the dorm superintendent Botovoy and her husband Renat, hate and love one another with all the maximumism of youth—unusually and desperately—while the rest of the universe doesn’t exist…
Passion and betrayal, blood and tears—these have tightly bound the heroes, and even death can’t break such a spellbound circle…