About the book: 2018 / St. Petersburg and Siberian writer Vasily Ivanovich Aksenov, winner of the Andrei Bely Prize, in a new novel, following such books as “Time Zero” ", "Spring in Yalani", "Solnovorot", etc., continues the study of the Russian North. “If only there were a daughter Anastasia” is a year-long prayer, during which the hero, together with the author, intensely peers at the nature of Siberia, at the change of seasons and at the movements of his own soul.