Small prince. Leibov B.V.

The book of Boris Leibov is devoted to childhood spent in Moscow and the Moscow Region and youth, closely related to emigration-life in Cyprus and France in the late 1990s. Attachment to parents, grandmother and grandfather, the first and, of course, unrequited love, teenage friendship create a real dramatic ball. The story of growing up, turning from a boy into a man, full of fantasies and rough reality.

This book is a lot of things. Here is the atmospheric cast of the era with its dangerous turns of fate. And a love peeping into life, because every detail is important for the author: rustling of grass, rain noise, the first winter snowstorm. And a nagging longing for left in the past. And a careful interest in the new.

Autobiographical, lyrical, nostalgic book of Leibov, finalist of the Prize Mark Aldanov, reminds of the best examples of Russian prose - from the "life of Arsenyev" Ivan Bunin to the work of Alexander Ilychevsky.