Farewell to Matera
Money for Mary. Maria, an inexperienced seller of a village store, discovered a shortage. A thousand is a huge amount for her family. The news about the shortage quickly spreads through the village, but no one is in a hurry to offer help. No one would like to be in Mary, but most do not care how she will get out of such a situation.
Live and remember. In the last year of the war, Andrei returns to his native village, who deserted on the road from the hospital after injury. The fact that Andrei returned is known only by one person - his wife Nastya. She is forced to hide her husband even from her relatives. Andrey is now an eternal fugitive, doomed to loneliness.
Farewell to Matera. The story takes place in the 1960s in the village of Matera, located in the middle of the Angara River. In connection with the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric station, the village should be flooded, and the inhabitants are relocated.
The daughter of Ivan, the mother of Ivan. The plot is based on the story of a woman from the Siberian city, who shot the rapist of her minor daughter.
Book V.G. Rasputin “Farewell to Matera” symbolically became the 100th volume of the popular Sibiriad series, produced by the Publishing House “Veche” since 2006