About the book: 2020 / Slavik looked out the window. The day was milky gray and purple, and thick, wet flakes of snow curtained the yard, saturating the shadows with that same purple... Or lilac? Slavik was not yet very well versed in the shades of flowers. Mom said that “lilas” is lilac in French, but then it turned out that lilac comes from the word “lilac”, and lilac from the same... So is it the same color or different?! And purple, my mother said, is from the word “violet”, and it is darker and thicker, almost like ink... Slavik had never seen either violets or ink, but it seemed to him that the word “February” itself was purple…