Farewell to Matyora

"Farewell to Matyora (1976) — one of the best works of Valentin Rasputin. This is a poignant story about the sinking of the island and the village of the same name for the great construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric station, when it was conquered Angara wayward stream and an artificial sea. At the bottom of the sea, among others, must leave and mater. To go along with birches and pines, "a bog with a frog, together with the village and cemetery. Without centuries of colonized Islands can not imagine their existence and the elderly who find it difficult to accept the destruction of their graves, huts in which they were born, all habitual way of life is firmly linked to Matyora. "The whole fabric of the story, a stream of folk poetry..." wrote Solzhenitsyn. — How many feelings about his native land, its eternal. The fullness of nature — and lively dialogue, sound, speech, the exact words". In the present edition includes and other of the novel by V. Rasputin: "Money for Maria" (1967), "deadline" (1970), "Fire" (1985).