«Yudol» - novyy roman. «Budto by nash staryy dvor, gde stoyal grob s baboy Veroy. Tolko ona zhiva, kak i sestra eyo Lyudmila, dyadya Mihail, ded Aleksey. Vse nervnichayut, zhdut transport s saharom. Baba Vera pokazyvaet, chto u neyo tri paltsa na ruke raspuhli. U dyadi tozhe: bolshoy, ukazatelnyy, sredniy. I u Lyudmily s dedom Alekseem. Priezzhaet, drebezzha, dopotopnyy gruzovik, izvechnyy sovetskiy katafalk - tam meshki. Nabegaet vdrug tolpa sosedey - splosh odutlovatye paltsy! Ya sprashivayu: "Pochemu?" Rodnya v otvet krestitsya. Smotryu na moyu pravuyu kist - otyokshee do chernoty troeperstie. Kreschus radi prilichiya so vsemi, a dyadya uzhe vzvalil na spinu meshok sahara, povolok. "Yudol" ne roman, a rekviem?» (Mihail Elizarov)