Fox's Laughter

Save Mom, the dog, and mankind. Nostalgic sci-fi by the winner of the “Big Book.”

Summer of 1987. The village of Mikhailovsk in the Far East. Schoolboy Seryoga has vacation. Seryoga doesn’t want to go to a summer camp—he wants to walk with his dog and with older school students. But he ends up at the center of a deadly epidemic that spares neither animals nor people. Only a miracle will help the boy save the world from the combat virus—but also his own stubbornness, help from his friend Raika, a suspicious suitcase found in the forest, and a little help from pilots, medics, and a mysterious ghost who is searching for something in the forbidden zone, to the strange laughter of foxes…