This novel is the “collecting motley chapters”, where each chapter is called a line from Pushkin and is an independent story about one of the heroes. And there are a lot of heroes in the novel – a gifted musician of the post -war period, “cute womanizer”, and a plain -like exemplary schoolgirl in the mid -50s, in the soul of which passions invisible to the world, jealousy, forbidden love are burning; An orphanage guy, an atomic physicist, the son of a repressed commissar and a rustic “Pogopole”, a witness to the Gulag, and many, many others. Private stories grow into the picture of Russian history of the 20th century, but the novel is not a historical canvas, but rather a multifaceted family saga, and the further the narrative develops, the more the fate of the heroes around the mysterious family of Katenins, the descendants of the same Katenin, are weaved by Pushkin’s friend. The novel is full of riddles and secrets, passions and insults, love and bitter losses. And more and more often there is an analogy with the narrowly scientific concept of “the effect of the rebel” – as a drop of tin breaks a flexible steel plate, so not …
Author
Minkina-Taycher Elena Mikhailovna
Publisher
Time, 2016
Series
It’s time!
16+
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