Roman, written, well, let’s say, not very evenly - in the text of which, next to stylistically flawless phrases, you can find the turns of the type “long hips” (these are the hips of the young lady who “began to sink into the water”), in which there are plot slippers to the middle of the novel, excessive, of course, a generalization, generalization in the images of the main characters, but at the same time, we are in front of us. whose readings are difficult to break away.