Daria Wilke's first book includes the story “A Thousand Faces of Silence” and eight short stories. They are all united by a common place and time of action: a dacha, summer holidays. A time of freedom, when every day is lived from the first to the last minute as a small life. Many readers—both children and adults—recognize themselves in the characters. Adventures, fiction, games, experiments. The first sympathy and the first shame for involuntary cruelty. Awareness of one's own and others' vulnerability. Daria Vilke managed to convey the fragility and tenderness of this short but very important age - the end of childhood.