880-05 "One of the main "heroes" of the novel is time. It powerfully changes human destinies and street names, flipping through generations like the pages of a book. Time willfully disposes of the fate of the main character, Irina. She gave birth to two children, but raised three. An almost perfectly honest person, she almost ends up in prison... When Irina returns to her hometown after the war, she appears as wounded as her own life. Her children grow up and no longer remember what she knows and remembers. Or don't want to remember? - But this means that the grandchildren will never know about the past: it slips away without leaving a trace in reality, but continues to live in memory, dreams and conversations with those who no longer exist. The only way to stop a moment is to remember it and pass this memory on to a person of another time, a new generation."-- Cataloger's translation and interpretation of the synopsis from the book.
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