shakhnazarov made the film white tiger, yes, but this is really written by our contemporary, this is without calling him by name, he is there all the time sanych, sanych by his patronymic, as if his own, compare two books, how they would mow down such good things in in the best sense of the word , such a soviet narrative, such a novel of education that unfolds, and you see the character of this hero, who is , well, almost like this... such, well, such an icon , yes, such a boy who has almost no shortcomings, but if there is, he overcomes them, and he is alive at the same time, a very good book, verkina is a completely different child , yes, a different teenager, he is rough, he is complex, he is conflicted, he may be prickly somewhere, but you get carried away, you fall under the charm of this book, it’s very cool that it exists , here is the question, why, and now i would like to turn it to you, because of course there is one more. a very bright book dedicated to the great patriotic war, which appeared already in the new century, in the new millennium, this is your novel steppe gods