About the book: 1982 / From the pages of the book by Orenburg resident Alexey Ivanov, alarming questions arise about how to combine the moral values ​​of village life with the energetic intervention of the industrial world in it How to wisely and perspicaciously weigh the true cost of our acquisitions and losses in these times of rapid pace of creation. Aleksey Ivanov’s prose is rich in accurate observations of nature and rural life; the young author listens sensitively to the living speech of the people, writes in simple, close to colloquial language.