About the book: 1987 / The new book by the famous Moldavian poet and prose writer Nicolae Esinencu includes three short stories and a cycle of short stories. The title story of the collection, "The Wooden Cannon," is dedicated to a military theme : a helpless old man and his daughter-in-law, caught in the thick of military events, enter into an unequal battle with the enemy and win. The changes taking place in public life, in the spiritual world of our contemporary, are narrated in the stories presented in the book.