About the book: 1987 / In the book "Favorites" by the famous Komi writer, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR. M. Gorky I. Toropov included works connected by a single plot: they tell the story of the difficult fate of the peasant son Fyodor Melekhin, whose manhood occurred during the war years and the first post-war years. The fate of Fedya Melekhin is the fate of a whole generation of boys who endured their on the shoulders of the sorrows of the war years.