About the book: 1972 / The book tells the story of two friends, one of whom died at the front in the Great Patriotic War, and the second reads a diary deceased. This is a story about war, youth and childhood memory. There is a lot of poetry in it, perhaps because one of the heroes had the makings of a writer and musician and would probably have become a great artist if not for the war... The story has the smell of the sea, the living colors of the south, a portrait of the small Black Sea town of Anapa, where the lighthouse illuminates the sea green, red and green again…