The book by famous writers and film playwrights Alexei Yakovlevich Kapler and Viktor Viktorovich Konetsky includes both their joint and their own works, in which the funny coexists perfectly with the serious. Among them, of course, is “Striped Voyage” - a comic incident on board a Soviet cargo ship delivering a batch of ten tigers and two lions to Odessa for the zoo (the film of the same name was released in 1961, starring Alexei Gribov, Margarita Nazarova, Evgeniy Leonov; director Vladimir Fetin).The work of A. Kapler is represented by a story about the paths of life and the search for the creative intelligentsia at the dawn of the formation of Soviet power, and V. Konetsky - a novel about the fate of people who survived the Leningrad blockade, who lost loved ones and their favorite jobs, but, despite everything , who remained winners in any tests. Contents: Alexey Kapler, Victor Konetsky. Striped flightAlexey Kapler. Return of the Battleship Viktor Konetsky. Who looks at the clouds