The Smoke of the Fatherland

This novel by Konstantin Paustovsky has a difficult fate. He finished work on it in 1944, but it so happened that the manuscript, except for one chapter, was lost. But almost twenty years later she was accidentally discovered in the State Literary Archive. And the writer published his work. Paustovsky himself gave a short review of "The Smoke of the Fatherland": "This is a novel about our intellig...