Under the Pear Tree

Before you is a collection of short prose about the Russian village and the lives of simple people. Sometimes whimsical fate plays cruel games with the heroes, just like in reality, bright moments of happiness are interspersed with the bitterness of disappointment. The stories, written with love for rural life and attention to detail, will take readers to that very yard behind the wooden fence, where it smells of hay, and golden rays of sunlight break through the green leaves of the apple trees.