Midnight. Alekseeva N.

Nadia Alekseeva was born in 1988 in the suburbs. She studied dramaturgy and prose at the CWS writing school, published in “Youth”, “Friendship of Peoples” and “New World”. She became the short-list of "Lyubimovka" and the finalist of the Lyceum Prize. The Half -Brush is a debut novel.

In the spring of 2016, Muscovite Pavel goes to Valaam to look for a relatives, restoring the story of forty years ago. In the seventies in the monastery, there was a boarding school on the island, where veterans of the Second World War and their family survived their century. There he graduates from school and dreams of becoming a doctor Semyon. His motorcycle flies, scattering Ladoga into two white mustache, and heated on the shallows of the seals, and pulls the fire from the shore, and the bell that survived from the war is buzzing. Very soon this world will collapse due to the shot of the Finnish rifle...