About the book: 1981 / Maria Rolnikaite is known to a wide range of readers as the author of books exposing fascism, deeply revealing not only the horrors of Hitler’s dungeons, but also the terrible moral consequences of fascist barbarism . In the story “The Long Silence” M. Rolnikite remains faithful to the anti-fascist theme. The heroine of the story, medical instructor Zhenya, is seriously wounded and ends up in a concentration camp. Here, in the context of a collision of extreme inhumanity with the highest courage, the heroine anew comprehends the laws of people's responsibility for each other, for the fate of the world on earth. Continuing the main theme of his work, M. Rolnikite attempts a new, philosophical and moral approach to the chosen topic, an in-depth psychological understanding of the characters’ characters and the situations in which they manifest themselves.