Farewell to the mother. Money for Mary. Rasputin V.

The stunning novels of Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, included in the book, are imbued with love for his native land and sincere pain for the moral state of society. In “Farewell to Matera,” the author tells about the “small” homeland, without which there can be no real person, and the separation from the roots and traditions for the writer is equal to the loss of conscience: “The small homeland gives us much more than we are able to realize.” The confrontation between the spiritual principle and prudent materialism, mercy and cruelty, compassion for other people's trouble and cold indifference is the main theme of the story “Money for Mary”, the first famous work of a wonderful Russian writer.