The novel is the winner of the National Children's Literary Award “The Cherished Dream” of the 2007/2008 season. Oleg Rain’s “To the Left of the Sun” opens a new series of books from the Socrates publishing house, addressed primarily to teenagers. The publishing house intends to select for this series the best works of contemporary authors, which discuss the eternal questions facing the generation of “young men contemplating life”: what path to choose in life, what to strive for, what to be, how to build relationships with other people. “To the left of sun" is an exciting, ironic, smart and kind book about a 14-year-old hacker Genk, who, through his own fault and by chance, ends up from a big city in an “unpromising” village. An active and enterprising guy will find something to do there, but he will constantly be faced with a moral choice, and solving these problems will become no easier for him than installing electricity in houses that were long abandoned in the century before last. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, and especially recommended for middle and high school age. Drawings by Yana Akhmetshina