Tsar-ryba [Czar-Fish]

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is a classic of 20th-century Russian prose, a laureate of two USSR State Prizes, the independent Triumph Prize, the State Prize of Russia and others. He received his first prize in 1978 for narrating in the stories 'King of the Fish'. This book, subjected to severe censorship and evil criticism, brought the author national recognition and remains to this day one of the favorite for connoisseurs of Russian literature. The moral and philosophical narrative about the responsibility of man for all life around him, about his difficult and painful desire for peace and harmony in nature and in his own soul.