About the book: 1974 / A satirical story about the creation, existence and fall of the housing construction cooperative "Leto" in the village of Galakhovka near Moscow during the years of Soviet power. The narrative is dedicated not to military and labor feats, but to a description of that rare breed of people in the USSR to whom the very thought of asceticism and heroism is alien. Because the Halakhites (those in question) never claimed fame. The only thing they always wanted was to be inconspicuous, but prosperous.