About the book: 1989 / Re-release of the novel by Semyon Ivanovich Shurtakov, awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. Gorky. The heroes of the novel are our contemporaries. Their moral quests, gains and losses, their reflections on the historical memory of the people and their national origins, on the spiritual heritage of the past and the inextricable connection of times form the plot and ideological basis of the work.