About the book: 2020 / Deep rear during the Great Patriotic War. The Molotov cocktail the boy prepared for the front could turn into a Gulag for his father. Or haunted for generations. And in the modern world, a grandson, standing over his grandfather’s coffin, tries to comprehend the meaning of the crossed hammer and sickle - also a kind of sign of the cross. “Burn your bridges” means cutting off any possibility of retreat. And in the case of setting fire to the bridge in front of you, it means really seeing a way out, but deliberately depriving yourself of the opportunity to use it…