The chain of adventures of a young ten-year-old Baku boy Alik who ran away from home led him to Odesa. Here, the boy made friends with his peers and many other people, and learned his first life lessons. He returned home accompanied by his father and mother, for whom their son's escape became a test of the family's strength.
It is the story of an old man - Gulam - and the cherry tree which grew in his garden. As the story opens, the village children consider Gulam their best friend.
Summer 1942. Nazi troops storm the Caucasus. They are rushing to get their hands on Baku oil. An Abwehr special group called "Wartburg" has settled in the Nalchik area.
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'.
When his parents are killed by three men, Amar, Akbar and Anthony, Vijay teams up with a forest officer who was framed in a murder case to avenge their deaths.
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