Sergey Govorukhin’s prose is about love and compassion, about moral choice, about what life after the war becomes as a test for a person.
The collection includes novellas, short stories, and miniatures.
Contents
Old man
Nonsense
Draw me, Zhenya
A Misty Edge of the Sky
Lerочка-Valerочка
For Christ’s sake
Please don’t buy a bulldog terrier
Reflections of Sergey Ilyich Khudyakov
My friend Slavka
One of many
Turbulence/Confusion
When I return, I will leave…
An essay on a departing subject
Staying with you
One hundred and forty years of loneliness
Yevdokimov
A Pink Language of the Alabai
A Thousand Thousands of Us
Miniatures.
Foreword
From sixteen to twenty
From twenty to the war
After…
Murky Mainland
Nobody but us…
Transparent forests in Luxembourg