In search of a boyish god. D. Ishchenko

“While you have a fuse to make discoveries, move forward, open an unknown one means a boyish god with you,” Vanya radio operator Boris once said. But how to find him, this boyish God? Moreover, here, in the Arctic cold, in the middle of the void, where Vanya spends the longest summer of her life.

All people like people, in July leave for the sea, to a warm beach, and his father suddenly decided to arrange a vacation on north. In the village of Tsypnavolok, in one street-no shops, no wai-fay with a mobile connection, no an island of smooth asphalt for a skate. Only the old rickety houses, the bored workers, the sunken ships thrown ashore... Although the deceased ship is perhaps interesting: Vanya has overcome fear, made his way inside in the early morning and seemed to understand what Boris had in mind. Or is it not?

, on the pages of this book, numerous tips are scattered, where and how to look for his boyish God, what can he be, how not to lose his connection with Him. The story of Dmitry Ishchenko is, of course, not a collection of practical tips for lost adolescents, but rather an inspiring and strikingly cinematic story about the inevitable end of childhood. Three months on the picturesque coast of the Barents Sea become an inexhaustible source of experience for the protagonist - and knowledge about himself.

The name of Dmitry Ishchenko is not yet known to the reader, however, in his debut book, such a scope of thinking is found, which is inherent in children's Classic authors. And the picturesque panoramas of the northern nature, which are rich in the story, resemble the paintings of the director Andrei Zvyagintsev. The writer lives in Murmansk, at different times he worked as a journalist, screenwriter and director of documentaries. His story "Teriberka" was part of the short list of the prize to them. I.P. Belkin, and "in search of a boyish god" received a prize to them. V.P. Krapivin in the nomination “Choosing a children's jury.”

for middle and senior school age.

3rd edition, corrected.