About the book: year / Fate... She saved the little heroine and her mother during the terrible years of the war. Saved it in the harsh post-war times. It just so happened that her life in childhood and youth took place alternately in two republics, quite distant from each other, connected only by steel threads-rails. Two different worlds - a warm, cheerful southern city of Ukraine and a cool, alienated, but very picturesque region of the Latvian outback, in which time in the fifties of the twentieth year seemed frozen in the distant, distant past...