About the book: 2017 / The story tells about the fate of a Chechen girl and a Russian special forces soldier, about war, about love, about the difficult peaceful life of shift workers in the Tomsk north. Still a writer V Shkalikov published works that necessarily contained either fantasy or fairy tales. This time - merciless realism, in which the author remains faithful to only one thing: “the end must give hope, otherwise you should not read the book, but just look around.” His heroes do not retreat either in battle or in life. They believe in themselves and each other. They have a very different idea of ​​whether “savage food” is good and what the real difference between cultures is. Illustrations by Olga Nechaeva The cover theme was suggested by her.