About the book: 2009 / "The fish has always been connected with his father. As a child, Sergei waited for his return from fishing, just as Christians wait for the Messiah - he will return and save Seryozha from the silence of the rooms. It will fill the void, create a new, bright, delicious world out of roaring laughter. With the low peals of his voice he will disperse the silence that has accumulated over the week, fill the boring air of the kitchen with spicy and salty air, and dump a bunch of slippery silver bodies into the sink. Mother will begin to peel off the scales, disgustedly touching the long carcasses, and dad will take out a piece of the most delicious bread in the world, stale, smelling of smoke and water - “from the bunny.” And Seryozha, with a happy sigh, sinking his teeth into the spongy fragment sprinkled with coarse salt, will hear the loud hiss of oil in the frying pan and feel how the apartment is filled with the seductive smell of fried fish…»