Vasily Golovanov is called an anarchist in literature—no accident, since his first book was about Makhno, and the next one, “The Island,” has the subtitle “justification of meaningless travels.” “Time for Tea” is both a continuation of this “wrong” prose and an attempt to write something else—classically clear. An old country dacha settlement near Moscow, where the hero—living through his personal drama—finds himself drawn into almost theatrical action: shadows of the past live here, in the present; a detective story remains unresolved; and through the forests wanders a German tank lost in time and space…
Contents:
Time for Tea
Tank
Neither with anyone nor ever
A new taiga philosophy
Police file
Story
A gun barrel propping up the sky
A journey to the homeland of the ancestors, or Poshekhonsky side
Ezhkov
Doors
Territory of love