About the book: year / "Earthly Gravity" is the second book by E. Rzhevskaya. The first, “Spring in an Overcoat,” was published by the publishing house “Soviet Writer” in 1961. “Earthly Gravity” is a story about the youth of our days. The heroes of the story - Leshka Kolpakov and a girl nicknamed Zhuzhelka - are children of war, born from fathers who did not return from the front. In their families - the complexity of relationships, disorder, traces of “fatherlessness”. E. Rzhevskaya's story tells about an alarming and wonderful time of search and maturity, thinking about life, about one's place in it. And about first love, passionate and difficult, forcing you to look at people and yourself in a new way.