The Life and Unusual Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin. Book 1

The most popular book from Vladimir Voinovich's trilogy about soldier Ivan Chonkin. This novel is often called a novel-anecdote, which is quite true. The time of action is the beginning of the war with Nazi Germany, but the story in... the novel is not about this at all. After all, soldier Chonkin is ordered by his superiors to guard a non-flying airplane that made an emergency landing in a certain Russian village. The soldier standing on guard has been conveniently forgotten, yet he – on duty – is also arranging his life.
 
The book you have opened has a happy fate. It survived the harsh years of prohibitions, but it also withstood the test of freedom, as evidenced by this reissue, I no longer remember which number in the sequence... Keep in mind that the entire story of the life and adventures of its hero – soldier Ivan Chonkin – from youth to old age is detailed in three books, and this is only the first of them. I hope that after reading it, you will want to know what happened to the hero next.