About the book: year / Kim Anatoly Andreevich was born in the village of Sergievka, Chimkent region in 1939. Father and mother are teachers. In 1947, he and his family moved to Sakhalin. Served in the army. He studied at the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905. In 1971 he graduated from the Literary Institute. The first collection of prose “Blue Island” (1976). The traditions of Russian philosophers and the teachings of Western cosmists received strong development in Kim’s prose. The writer came to wide fame after the release of the parable novel “Squirrel” (1984). The destinies of three generations of a Russian family in the 20th century formed the basis of the epic novel “Father the Forest” (1989), imbued with the ideas of the Apocalypse. Events in literary life were the novels “Onlyria” and “Picking Mushrooms to the Music of Bach.” In 1991, he went to South Korea for five years. In 2003, Kim translated the Korean folk epic “The Tale of Chhunyang” into Russian. Winner of a number of literary awards. Lives in Moscow. Anatoly Kim’s fairy tale novel “Arina.” designed for family reading. Everything that Arinochka, a four-year-old orphan with living parents, faces appears before the reader (and listener) as a moral and philosophical story about the responsibility of the adult world to a defenseless child, and in general, to our future. The author sees his greatest task as coming to the aid of Arina and those she loves in time in their hour of trial. The novel has a happy ending. In a fairy tale, like in a fairy tale…