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“Literature should lift a person above himself in order to want to live. Russian classics have always straightened a person, even telling terrible things about him. A good book has a moral message. The answer to the children's question: "What is good and what is bad?" - main. If not, the book is immediately uninteresting. Our life is hard, there is a lot of evil in it, lies, an incredible amount of indifference that breaks a person. And literature encourages to remember that a person is conceived to be good ... " Galina Shcherbakova, from an interview "The Mark of Lilith" is one of Shcherbakova's most tragic stories. It intertwined the stories of Russian and Chechen families - against the backdrop of the war. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Born under the same sky, in the same era, people become pawns in the shameless games of politicians and the military. And there is no power in the world that could end their suffering. Unless it is the power of compassion and forgiveness. It is above laws and above lawlessness. She was alone and remained with people abandoned to the mercy of fate.