The book by the well-known Soviet prose writer includes topical works about the life of our contemporaries. At the center of the author’s investigation are the difficult—and sometimes painful—searches for answers to questions that sooner or later every person asks: how to live, what to be in this life? In the heroes of V. Makanin’s works, the generation of the eighties sees itself in all its fullness—with all the good and complex that belongs to the generation, and with everything that one must let go of.