Author Mikhail Sholokhov

A small heart-wrenching story about two orphaned ailing souls, two grains of sand, devoid of all the unprecedented power of war. Sholokhov wrote it from the words of a passer-by who told him the story of his difficult fate. So ten years after this meeting was created a work that absorbed the tragedy of the entire Russian people, who have fallen full of the sorrows of the war. And after all the unbearable, immense adversity, it is unknown how many more sorrows will fall on the share of man and child, who met to pass together on the left war potholes and not to break under the weight of terrible troubles that fell on the back of an ordinary person