About the book: 2012 / The border is a harsh world, there is no place for the weak and inept. Local residents are famous throughout Taron for their strength of spirit and tough character. Like all people, nothing human is alien to them: the thirst for fame and wealth, love and hatred, envy and meanness. Here you can meet both an honest person and a notorious scoundrel. But you won’t meet knights and righteous people - they haven’t taken root. And they are unlikely to take root. Maybe the climate is unfavorable for them, harmful to the body. And this novel is not about them.