<p>...There is nothing deliberate or contrived in these stories. It is as if the author chops off piece by piece from himself every story - childhood with his granny musical lessons loving experience of youth and of course music: music which sounds in every story - sometimes by relief sometimes just by a hardly seen shade... The confession of each hero in Requiem is bright serene and heartfelt as well as all of Kholodov's prose...<br/>-Literary Symphony Book Review Moscow.</p>