Farewell to the Mother

Farewell to Mattera is one of Valentina Rasputin"s best works. This is a degrading story about the flooding of the island and the village with the same name for the sake of the Grand Construction of the Bratsk HPP, when it was conquered by "hangars an intensive stream and created artificial sea. At the bottom of this sea, the Matyor must leave among others. Get together with birch trees and pines, "Bowl with a frog", along with the village and the cemetery. Without the obligations of the island, the island does not think of its existence and old people who are difficult to accept the destruction of their own graves, the Lords, in which they were born, the entire usual lifestyle, firmly connected with the Mattera. "The whole tissue of the story is a wide stream of popular poetic perception ... - wrote A. Solzhenitsyn. - How many feelings are about native land, her eternity. Fullness of nature - and the live dialogue, sound, speech, accurate words".
This edition includes other tales of V.Stutina: "Money for Mary", "Last Deadline", "Fire"