About the book: 1980 / A significant part of the events depicted in the works included in the book take place in Central Asia. The Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 tragically burst into the fate of the heroes, at eleven seconds, destroying their familiar world; The line that separated true values ​​from false ones became sharper (“Earthquake”). In the story “Vertigo” the writer poses to young people the problem of choosing between love, loyalty to ideals and petty-bourgeois calculation. Both in the story and in the novel, as in his other works, Lazar Karelin is interested in the moral and ethical side of the behavior of heroes, our contemporaries.