About the book: year / Do you know a word that would name all the colors at once? And what fairy tales are told where there is only one lantern in the entire village and the school is boarded up? And how can you find a secret lake in the forest where you can see your real self? The collection of short prose by Alexandra Yakovleva includes stories about the Siberian land and indigenous peoples, about people alone with wild nature, about the taiga and its secrets. Many of these secrets can only be seen through the eyes of a child, which is why the heroes of the stories are most often children. But the book is closer and more understandable to adults - to those who still remember themselves as small, and the world as huge..