“On the Shore of the Sky” is a new book by Vasily Golovanov, known to readers for his brilliant artistic studies “Nestor Makhno”, “The Island, or the Justification of Pointless Travels”, “To the Ruins of Chevengur”, “Caspian Book”. This time, the author presented to the reader short stories and stories filled with sincerity and confessionalism, rare in modern literature. The combination of male toughness and at the same time unspent youthful tenderness in reflections on love, childhood, heroism and cowardice, the vocation and destiny of a person is evidence of the author’s frantic desire to get to the bottom of the matter: why a person is given life and what needs to be done with himself, in order to remain alive in the midst of the most shabby everyday life, to retain a spark of divine light within yourself?