Sapphire albatross. Melikhov A.M.

The provincial boy opens up the gift to see the world with strangers and an adult person enters the St. Petersburg house on the embankment opposite the blood Savior. This house also stands on the blood and suffering of Soviet writers who lived there, but the ruthless exposure of Felix calls this house a chicken coop on the ditch, and depicts the story of its famous inhabitants with a history of cowardice and adaptability. But Soviet literature appears in the form of an albatross in a chicken coop. There is the shock of the father, who first saw an adult son, is a flying monument to the Soviet era, the romance combines everyday reliability and fascination with a strong symbolic and phantasmagoric principle.

What is more expensive: truth or mercy? Melikhov’s novel with all his bitter truth is not a merciless tribunal, but a search for understanding.