About the book: 2016 / Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin is a Russian prose writer, whose works have become classics of Russian literature, a writer of rare artistic talent. His language is a living, precise and bright, precious instrument with the help of which Rasputin creates the music of his native land and his people, endowing his best heroes with the ability to feel the “endless, furious grace” of the universe, “all the radiance and all the movement of the world, all its inexplicable beauty and passion...” This edition presents the stories “The Deadline”, “Farewell to Matera”, “Live and Remember”, as well as the stories “French Lessons”, “Live a Century - Love a Century”, etc..