Ворон

At fourteen - you are no longer a child. You understand more, you know better people, you feel your nature thinner. Dima went to a long sable hunt with one thought: with the first killed beast, he would be transformed and returned to the city with a real man. The guide to the adult world is Uncle Nikolai Nikolaevich, who knows how to read tracks in the snow better than Dima reads his books. The young man will help both Balagur Artyomych, and the hunter is involuntarily Vitya, and the sensitive Laika Tamga - but the meeting with the elusive raven will be a revelation.
A multi -day sable - an adventure that you can tell classmates not a day or two. The best moment is: Dima is aiming at the brilliant animal, presses on the trigger, joyfully shouts: "Headshot!" - Everything is like in a computer game! Could a young man imagine that will and courage will come in handy for him not at all for this, but will have completely different stories to share with friends?
Dima, like many teenage heroes in the books of Yevgeny Rudashevsky, hangs between the world of childhood and the adult universe. In "Vorona", as in his other stories "Hello, my brother BZOU!" And "where Kumutkan goes", Evgeny Rudashevsky creates a peculiar silent dialogue of two main characters - man and animal. In the behavior of these "interlocutors", in their fate there is something elusively common. Perhaps this is the need to overcome a difficult moment for the sake of further life, or maybe the loneliness of a fingering, the loneliness of a creature who first left a cozy nest. The illustrations of Peter Zakharov echo the book of the book and exacerbate the internal conflict that the main character is experiencing.
The writer carefully preserves the tales and wisdom of hunters, their language rich in significant nuances: Kurzhuha on the branches in the morning or ghost is a fundamental issue. The story "Raven" will easily stand with the works of James Fenimor Cooper and Vitaly Bianchi, and at the same time it is clearly, unconditionally modern. Dima - flesh from the flesh of the 21st century. Nature is not a workshop for him and not a temple: he himself, and the raven, and countless trees in the taiga, all of them are the inhabitants of the common house, the only and therefore invaluable.
For secondary and senior school age.
2nd edition, corrected