Одинокая ласточка

Ėpicheskiĭ i odnovremenno intimnyĭ roman ob opustoshenii, kotoroe neset voĭna, ob iskuplenii i sile li͡ubvi. V denʹ, kogda imperator Khirokhito obʺi͡avil o kapituli͡at͡sii I͡Aponii, tem samym postaviv tochku vo Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭne, troe muzhchin, okhvachennykh likovaniem, dali drug drugu obeshchanie odnazhdy vstretitʹsi͡a v ėtot zhe denʹ v ėtom zhe meste. No vskore odin iz nikh umer, odnako svoe slovo sderzhal - prizrakom on prikhodil i zhdal druzeĭ. Lishʹ spusti͡a semʹdesi͡at let oni vstreti͡atsi͡a vtroem - posle togo, kak v vozraste 94 let umret posledniĭ iz troit͡sy. I vse zhe odnogo cheloveka ne khvatalo na toĭ vstreche. Devushki, kotorui͡u zvali Lastochka i v kotorui͡u byl vli͡ublen kazhdyĭ iz druzeĭ. Cherez rasskazy muzhchin, kotorykh tak tronula ėta devushka v besposhchadnye voennye vremena, zhiznʹ Lastochki postepenno obretaet plotʹ, sotkannui͡u iz ikh vospominaniĭ. Eĭ prishlosʹ proĭti cherez bolʹ i stradanii͡a, no ona sokhranila i dostoinstvo, i chuvstvo svobody i sumela obʺedinitʹ troikh muzhchin.

An epic and at the same time intimate novel about the devastation of war, about redemption and the power of love. On the day when Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan, thereby putting an end to World War II, the three men, overcome with glee, promised each other to meet one day on the same day in the same place. But soon one of them died, but he kept his word — he came like a ghost and waited for friends. Only seventy years later, the three of them will meet — after the last of the trio dies at the age of 94. And yet, one person was missing from that meeting. The girl whose name was Swallow and whom each of the friends was in love with. Through the stories of the men who were so touched by this girl during the merciless wartime, Swallow's life gradually takes on flesh, woven from their memories. She had to go through pain and suffering, but she retained both dignity and a sense of freedom and managed to unite three men.