A gripping book about Will and the Zone—about life and death. Strong heroes are brought into a vivid, epic canvas, at the very thin edge between collapse and spiritual ascent. It’s hard to define the genre of this unusual work. This is a special direction in Russian literature—harsh realism. And at the same time it is a song, a ballad, vivid tales and narratives—and the material here is not for just one novel. The book will help many young people get rid of criminal romance, not fall to the bottom, while for others it will open the Path to repentance and spiritual perfection. The manuscript is unique in that it was written on scraps of paper in the Zone almost two decades ago. But it won’t grow old and never will, because it contains both Earth and Heaven—eternal…