Tatarstan National library got 250 copies of book “To father with love”

250 copies of the book “To father with love” were given to the Tatarstan National Library. They are the present of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev to the largest library of the republic.

This book is a selection of family stories and touching remembrances of outstanding and respectable people. The list of the authors includes 35 people. Among them are Mintimer Shaimiev (who also wrote the introduction to the book), Jores Alfero, Andrei Bitov, Vladimir Voinovich, Rimma Kazakova, Vasily Lanovoi, Leonid Roshal, Aman Tuleyev, Zurab Tsereteli, Nikas Sofronov and others.

Writer Andrei Bitov, one of the authors, noted: “The relations between son and father is more delicate thing than those with mother, the recognition of father’s role in our life comes much later”.

ХХ century brought dramatic changes in the traditional family institute. Today millions of children are born out of the wedlock, are brought up in a single-parent family by mother. The society is gradually getting used to such situation. But in vain: nothing can replace love, attention and care of father to his kid. The authors of the book wanted to bring this idea to the their readers.