The sadness of the fields

In the house of Aleshka Platonov, who just turned fifteen, and his mother the postman brought a funeral. Mother, learning the news, lost consciousness and collapsed to the floor, and Alyoshka, not remembering himself from grief, wandered over the village ... In the story "The Grief of the Fields" Anatoly Ivanov remains true to his theme - the unique destinies of people, love and disappointment, the uneasy relations between the heroes.