A second before the explosion

Laureate of the Prize named after Vladislav Krapivina is a tragic and bright story about the fate of modern children from a big city, today in the big city in the epicenter of the armed conflict between the two neighboring countries.
Martha was the most ordinary girl - but the whole republic was read by the books of her father Andrei. Over the past year, everything changed - there was no dad and younger brother Dina, and together with their lives as if life ended in general - and war began. The world was immediately dressed in white and black, lost shades: white snow - black earth, white "we" - black "they". The nationality became a stigma, yesterday"s neighbors turned into swung enemies, but it didn"t seem strange to anyone - after all, each resident of the city lost close and relatives under bullets and shells, mounted with the once neighborhood side.
Marta also comes to new losses and tests - it will learn to live in the middle of the war, find friends, love and forgive. And also - appreciate life at any time, and not only per second before the explosion