Flame, or visiting the eleventh. Aksenov V.

In the new novel of the St. Petersburg writer Vasily Ivanovich Aksenov, as in other books of this wonderful prose writer, the small Siberian village of Yalan remains the center of the universe. And wherever the hero turns out to be: at excavations in the old Ladoga or in Leningrad in 1980 (and the main action of the novel occurs exactly there and then) - his thoughts and feelings are directed into his native Yalan. The lyrical story of the hero, which is also reflected in the name of the new book, as if continuing the line set by the author in his former novel "Ten Visions of my beloved." The eleventh and last visit was delayed for many years.