Genre: Novel

Author: Dritero Agolli

Description: Minai, the protagonist of the novel, is a writer who goes to the sawmills of Puka with creative permission, knows the types and characters of sawmills who are not among those "positive heroes". As in some films of the time, often according to Soviet models, the characters are portrayed as somewhat "crazy". The writer himself, the hero of the novel, was not a Zhdanovist (Soviet artists, writers that conformed to the party line in their creative works), but the free and uncomplicated man that Agolli had in mind, as one of his creative alter ego.