Содержание

• PART I
  The Books
• GROMOV
• LAGUDOV
• SHULGA
• MOKHOVA
• THE MOKHOVA THREAT
• LIBRARIES AND READING ROOMS
• THE BATTLE OF NEVERBINO
• PART II
  The Shironin Reading Room
• THE BOOK OF MEMORY
• UNCLE MAXIM
• CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH
• THE INHERITANCE
• THE BUYER
• THE AMBUSH
• THE FIRST NIGHT. THE FIRST DAY
• THE MEETING
• THE BOOK
• TERROR
• THE SATISFACTION
• THE RETURN
• AT HOME
• TIMOFEI STEPANOVICH
• TANYA
• MARAT ANDREYEVICH
• THE OTHER READERS
• A LITTLE DEBT
• THE LIBRARIAN
• IN KOLONTAYSK
• THE PAVLIKS
• SEVEN AGAINST SEVEN
• THE UGLIES
• THE VILLAGE HUT
• THE CREMATION
• QUARANTINE
• SCREWED
• A MEDITATION ON STALIN CHINAWARE
• THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
• THE FLIGHT
• THE VILLAGE SOVIET
• THROUGH THE FOREST
• BREATHING SPACE
• THE ASSAULT
• THE APPEARANCE OF GORN
• THE LITTLE GRANDSON
• PART III
  The Curator of the Motherland
• THE BUNKER
• IN THE OLD FOLK’S HOME
• THE VIEWING
• UNDER LOCK AND KEY
• CURATOR OF THE MOTHERLAND
• About the Publisher
• Copyright