Here comes the giant...

Konstantin Vorobyev (1919–1975) — a Soviet classic writer, a vivid representative of "lieutenant prose," author of the books "Killed near Moscow," "Cry," "...And to your whole kind." A participant in the defense of Moscow in 1941, he was captured — and went through camps, including in Salaspils, Kaunas, and Panevėžys, he escaped twice and eventually led a "self-formed" partisan unit of former prisoners of war in Lithuania.

The novella "It is us, Lord!.." is autobiographical, written in 1943, in 30 days, in an attic in the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai, when the group of partisans led by Vorobyev had to go underground. In 1946, the manuscript was offered to the magazine "Novy Mir," but the terrible truth about the war did not fit into the approved "heroic" discourse of military prose, and the author was refused; the novella was published only in 1986, after the writer's death.

The novella "Here Comes the Giant..." (1971) was noticed immediately. The main character traveled half the world as a sailor on a fishing trawler to fulfill his dream: to earn money, sit down, and write a book. But the finished novel receives predictable rejections from publishers and... a sudden meeting with the main woman of his life. But the woman turns out to be — married, pure and bright love — unlawful, and the circumstances and the bourgeois hypocrisy of society — insurmountable...