Prayer on rye field

Valentin Logunov, a journalist, a famous publicist and politician of the early 1990s, first appeared before us as the author of art works. In the best traditions of Russian prose, he knows how to see in the hero and God"s spark, and a wormhole in the soul, but does not admire about the first and does not condemn the second. “We are not ourselves, but life makes us like that,” says one of his characters.
The title story that gave the name to the whole collection - "Prayer on the rye field" is a piercing story about a six -year -old boy who accidentally remained alive during the war years and the first post -war ones, when the black wing of hunger covered his village and the entire bellitore region of Russia . The stories" Love in the working village "," Magdalen on the Square of three Stations", "Adam and the Apostle", "Mother Teresa Chitinskaya", others are united by the heading of “He and She ". The author sometimes invades an erotic platform, but without rudeness and vulgarity, so often characteristic of our time