Saluts on the other side. Shalashova A.

In the novel by Alexandra Shalashova, eleven storytellers-they experience and interpret the events differently, leaving no place for any objective version. These are small patients and educators of the sanatorium on the other side of the river, where children evacuate children from the city before the start of the war. Soon they explode the bridge, connecting them with the outside world, and the children plunge into darkness. Every day they hear explosions - or salvos of fireworks? “But they don’t know if there is still a war.” Lack of food, conflicts, a new informal hierarchy, the invisible presence of evil, which is not a name, and violence caused by endless loneliness, fear.

Once a soldier comes to the children and offers to bring them to people. But will they reach - or will get directly to the unknown invaders?