A short nostalgic story by one of the leading contemporary authors writing in Russian, winner of the Russian Booker and the Big Book, Alexander Ilichevsky. This is a journey into the past, undertaken by several old friends, floating on a raft along the surface of a wide river. It will not be a spoiler to say that in this short but emotionally charged journey, unhealed grievances and undecayed skeletons will emerge from the depths of memory, and the wounds of youth will be so exposed that only old friendship can heal them -Will it be able to? Ilichevsky's dialogue-filled story isa frozen cast of the past, which is never serene. And no one will leave offended. Or rather, like this: and no one will leave.
