We Never Make Mistakes

Resumen del libro

Includes translations of the Russian author's two short stories, "An Incident at Krechofovka Station, " about a Red Army lieutenant who must decide what to do with an army straggler, and "Matryona's House, " in which a young man describes and comes to understand the life of an old peasant woman after she dies. In "An Incident art Krechetovka Station, " a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.