Zakhkhok. Medvedev V.N.

The post -Soviet Tajikistan is covered by a civil war. A well -known doctor is killed, his family is forced to hide with relatives in a mountain village. The Russian wife and gaiting children are adapted to local life, in which unfamiliar brutal laws reign for centuries of a non-changing way. The same events are shown by the eyes of several participants - and each of them has its own special attitude to what is happening, motives for hatred and its own boundaries of humanity.

The novel Zakhhok is the finalist of the Russian Bouquer, Nose. "And" Yasnaya Polyana. " This is a multilayer rethinking of the latest history, which sounds both as a philosophical parable and an exciting detective action movie.