About the book: 1987 / The novel by the famous Georgian prose writer G. Dochanashvili is a multifaceted work, it can be defined as a social and philosophical novel. The author takes his young hero through three social formations: a society ruled by a careless minority, occupied only with their own pleasures; a gloomy totalitarian state, reminiscent of the times of the Inquisition, and, finally, a community of ordinary workers defending their freedom in heroic struggle. However, the retelling of the plot, which is quite sharp and skillfully constructed, does not give an idea of ​​the novel, which raises the most important philosophical questions that force the reader to think about what happiness is, what joy is and what the price of human life is, and what fuels creativity, and about much, much more. friend.