King of fish

Viktor Petrovich Astafyev is a classic of Russian prose of the XX century, winner of two State prizes of the USSR, the independent award "Triumph", the State prize of Russia and others. His first award in 1978 he received for narration in stories "the Tsar-fish". This book was subjected to severe censorship and angry critics, earned him national recognition and remains to this day one of the favorite for connoisseurs of Russian literature. Moral-philosophical account of man's responsibility for all the living, about the difficult and the painful yearning for peace and harmony in nature and in his own soul.