About the book: 1963 / M. Grossman's new story "The Death of Granuloma" is a story about our time and its people, true love and love for the sake of momentary joy, about loyalty in trouble, a sense of friendship, about a wasted life and life for happiness for yourself and everyone. This is a book about the most diverse people of our day. Its heroes are Magnitogorsk installers Pavel Abaturin, Viktor Linev, Grigory Blazhevich, student Anna Vakorina, head of the polar fishing fleet Irakli Mirtskhulava, trawler captain Prokofy Ivanov, Bulgarian Ivan Vlakhov - people are direct and honest, living openly and firmly, as big workers should live goals. But this is also a book about people infected with the fungus of money-grubbing, indifference, laziness, convinced that “every rake rows to itself.” Alevtina Magerkina - the daughter of a collective farm storekeeper, Lavrenty Stepanovich Tsibulsky, who has learned a dozen French phrases, but does not know our life and its people, Glasha, who squandered her youth, assembler Gordey Kuzyakin - these are people who still have a lot to do to cleanse themselves of the filth of the past. And maybe not everyone will be able to do this - the burden of hoarding, promiscuity, and mistakes is too great. The reader will undoubtedly pay attention to the figure of Averky Zhamkov - a leader who yearns for the times of the cult of personality and lives according to the vile laws of an alien world. The story leaves a bright impression. The forces of good, the forces of our communist society today are incomparably higher and stronger than the forces of individuals mired in the past.