Povesti "Kotrabasy ili dikie gusi voyny" i "Chuzhoy" yavlyayutsya opisaniem budney rossiysko-chechenskikh konfliktov 1994 i 1999 gg. i popytkoy pereosmysleniya etikh istoricheskikh sobytiy. Povest "Gryebanyy sakasaul" posvyashchena armeyskim budnyam i problemam, kotorye iz sovetskoy armii perekochevali v rossiyskuyu armiyu. Eto rasskaz o vcherashnikh malchishkakh- shkolnikakh, khuliganstvuyushchikh podrostkakh, prevrativshikhsya v soldat, ob ikh kazarmennykh budnyakh, o tom, kak normalnaya muzhskaya druzhba legko uzhivalas zdes s zhestokostyu i podlostyu. O tom, kak lyubaya sluchaynost ili...