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Krasná Dolina meant small town Soviet backwater.
Town where nothing truly interesting ever happens.
Just another gray map-spot communist reality.
Then night changed everything.
Nuclear power plant explosion, Alexej's world crumbles hours.
Loses home, certainties, family... advancing radiation even body.
What keeps alive-single thing: burning need understand plant happened father.
Escape evacuation train, hospital chaos, military patrols chase, hallucinations, dying friends-all leads back start-place.
Alexej's final city-border path also journey two worlds:
living world, those no-future world.
Realistic, chilling, sometimes brutally intimate boy story crossed hell-ended exactly nothing-left place, just darkness.
"On the Edge of Silence"** no just nuclear disaster novel.
Human failure novel, friendship, system lies...
...child-end adult world gave no chance.