About the book: 1990 / Unhurried intonation, attention to the realities of life, precise details, thoroughness - these are the features inherent in the prose of Alexander Zhukov. But in this down-to-earth, dense prose, a thin romantic string always sounds. No matter how deep in everyday life, in the bustle of everyday life, the hero of Alexander Zhukov is stuck, in his soul there is always hope for something higher, which will change fate, overturn the established order, will illuminate life in a new way, fill it with high meaning.