The book includes the story “The Blind Dudu Lost...” and short stories published in the magazine “October”, as well as essays from different years. A deaf-mute boy is born into a large peasant family. Surrounded by love, he grows up confident that the whole world is for him. They see him as a disinterested decoration of life, a funny pipe... But when they lose it, it becomes clear that this pipe led the blind. The story-parable “The Blind Trumpet Lost” brought Grigorenko victory in the “XXI Century” nomination and the main prize of the most prestigious literary award “Yasnaya Polyana” "(2016).