The novel “Ant God: Requiem” is a new poignant word about childhood left without the protection of reasonable adults. The child - the prince of summer and the sun, the god of cats and bugs - finds himself accused at the trial of human old age. The warm, funny story of a boy and grandmother from “The Heavenly Postman Fedya Bulkin” is revealed differently. The language of the novel goes back to Zabolotsky and Vvedensky, the spirit - to Fyodor Sologub and Leonid Andreev. Sasha Nikolaenko is a writer, artist, author of the novels “Heavenly Postman Fedya Bulkin”, “Kill Bobrykin” (Russian Booker), the collection “People Lived as Always ".