Uninvented stories, sad and funny, true destinies, real prototypes of heroes... It’s as if a documentary tape is passing before your eyes, capturing long-gone years and our days. And the main thing in Irina Vitkovskaya’s prose is love: for some it is timid youthful, for others it is bitter, with a taste of betrayal, and also sacrificial parental... And a slightly nostalgic love for their small homeland, where childhood remains forever. Uninvented stories, sad and funny, true destinies, real prototypes of heroes... It’s as if a documentary tape is passing before your eyes, capturing long-gone years and our days. And the main thing in Irina Vitkovskaya’s prose is love: for some it is timid youthful, for others it is bitter, with a taste of betrayal, and also sacrificial parental... And a slightly nostalgic love for their small homeland, where childhood remains forever