About the book: 1984 / Zacharia Stancu (1902-1974), the largest modern Romanian poet and prose writer, is well known to the Soviet reader. His great social novels “Barefoot”, “Wind and Rain”, “Game with Death” and a collection of lyrics “Simple Poems” have been translated into Russian. The stories and short stories reveal a new facet of Z. Stancu’s creativity, in his lyrical prose and generous picturesqueness in depicting peasant life, folk traditions and rituals, and a confession of the soul acquiring philosophical depth.