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"Who are you?" - from time to time, the young Timofey is asked by his enemy and friend, tormentor and mentor Felix, who was shell-shocked in a distant war. At the end of the novel, the almost-adult autobiographical Timothy asks himself, "Who am I?" The path from the first question to the second is inevitable for the protagonist of any novel of upbringing. In the case of Artem Chekh, it is upbringing in the shadow of the repulsive experience of someone else's war, which suddenly turns out to be moral and physical preparation for his own, although we will not find it in this novel. But perhaps we will find all those childhood and adolescent initiations through which we ourselves had to wade to a completely different adult life than we expected.