About the book: 2014 / "The words... seemed to push Akhmad. Here is an opportunity to run. There are no dogs, no fence, but in the taiga thicket what kind of chase can there be? I thought so and immediately discarded the thought. You cannot survive in the taiga alone. Without food, without shelter, there are plenty of predators... In the end, no one can avoid death, and dying in freedom from hunger still seemed preferable to him than being shot in one of the remote punishment cells of the BUR, a high-security barracks.” The novel was published in the magazine “Neman”, No. 11, 2014.