About the book: 1986 / The volume includes the well-known, State Prize-winning novel “Choice”, dedicated to the pressing and acute problems of our time, the theme of “choice”, in the very in the deep sense of the word, a person of his place in life and his “line” of behavior in relation to himself and those around him; a number of Bondarev's early stories (late 40s - mid 50s); The volume ends with a cycle of lyrical and philosophical miniatures “Moments”, on which the writer has been working since the early 70s to this day.