About the book: 1982 / The novel by V. Shcherbakova, winner of the All-Union Competition of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the USSR Writers' Union, tells about the fate of a woman who grew up in a working environment. The heroine of the novel, Anastasia Vorontsova, began her career at the famous Moscow Ball Bearing Plant. The formation of her personality took place on a construction site, and her fate merged with the fate of her native enterprise. There, in the workers' literary association, her introduction to high culture and creative work began..