About the book: 1981 / Writer Sahib Jamal is known to Soviet readers as the author of novels about the foreign East: “Black Roses”, “Three Carnations”, “President” ", "He returned", "When the tulips fell", "Dates are not given for nothing." Almost all of them are dedicated to the heroic struggle of the Arab peoples for liberation from colonial oppression. The stories included in this collection are largely autobiographical. In them, the author talks about the difficult childhood of his hero, about his wanderings in India, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Once in Moscow, he remains forever in the Soviet Union. The stories attract attention with the dynamism of the plots and the plasticity of the images.