“Is it easy to be young?” – the author, Nikita Mironov, himself still a very young man, reflects on this question, which has become almost rhetorical in our difficult times, in his first major work. Love and hate. Good and evil. Light and darkness. Guilt and redemption. The sweetness of reaching the heights of glory and the terrible bitterness of feeling the disastrous price that you have to pay for it. These are the eternal moral imperatives on the brink of which the author painfully balances along with his peer hero. A book like this, written by a teenager, is an extraordinary phenomenon in modern literature. I would like to believe that this book will find its way to the reader’s heart.