About the book: 2017 / Civil strife has not become a thing of history, like the plague or smallpox. The virus of war turned out to be stronger than time, and the wars themselves over the past thirty years have not become any more righteous or noble. There is nothing easier than starting a war. She just comes under the windows, says: “Come here, guy!”, and the guy goes to fight. The stories of T. Tadtaev - a kind of new epic about war - are about exactly this. The author was born in 1966 in Tskhinvali. Participant in the Georgian-Ossetian wars of 1991–1992 and other military conflicts in Transcaucasia. Awarded the Defender of the Fatherland medal. He owns four books: “The Son,” “The Apostate,” “Judgment Day,” and “Polyethylene City.” Laureate of the “Russian Prize” in 2008. Lives in Tskhinvali.