People of the black dragon. Vinokurov A.Yu.

The novel “The People of the Black Dragon”-the finalist of the Big Book Award for 2018-talks about extraordinary things taking place on the shore of the Amur, which the Chinese have long called the Black Dragon River or, Chinese, Heilongjiang. Here, before the 1917 revolution, four villages are formed at once - the Russian, Chinese, Jewish and the village of Amazon. The echoes of the story that is happening in the big world reaches the experienced, but life here goes on as usual, where a simple and understandable way is amazingly intertwined with unprecedented and fantastic. Golem, mermaids, dragons, demons of retaliation, Taoist wizards arising from time to time, and even death itself cannot violate the natural course of things and organically intertwine into the life of the village of Availay.