The book of the famous Leningrad prose writer includes the novel "And the Bread of Trials...," the novels "Bridges," "Farewell, Derbent," "Two Days in the Life of Klimov" and short stories. All these works are sharply modern, they visibly reflect the complex and often dramatic life of the heroes, their moral improvement, affirm the pathos of the fight against philistinism, acquisition, the ability to take responsibility on their shoulders at a difficult hour.