About the book: year / "...Can cheese making serve as the subject of a novel? - this is the question that naturally arises when reading Mr. Vitnyakov’s novel. No matter how strange this question may seem at first glance, if you look at it carefully, the answer will have to be in the affirmative. Yes, cheese making can be just as much a source of joys, sorrows and all sorts of life’s ups and downs, like any other branch of human activity, like public service, for example. That this latter contains an inexhaustible source for all kinds of beginnings and endings is a fact that has already been proven…»