About the book: year / The action of the novel begins in 1937 and ends after the collapse of the USSR. The ChSIRka girl is saved in Tashkent and lives under someone else’s name, with someone else’s past. Her whole life, until her death, passes there, in Tashkent. The novel, in general, is about luck in circumstances “there and then.” On the cover is “Autumn Still Life” by Vasily Zheribor.