Heavy Sand. A reminiscence novel

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov is a Russian writer, the author of many books, including the “dagger”, “Bronze Bird” and the legendary “Arbat Children” trilogy, his works were translated into dozens of languages ​​and were filmed more than once. The novel Heavy Sand, included in the real edition, is a piercing love story that covers for more than thirty years. The reader witnesses the sorrows and joys of the two lovers, Racheli and Jacob, follow the ups and downs of their life in a small southern town. The unhurried rhythm of the beautiful family saga breaks off when the Second World War collapses on the heroes of the novel ... “Everything that happened to these people happened to me,” Rybakov recalled. - Night sank over the city, I wandered in this darkness along the same streets. And the shadows of the tortured wandered next to me from home to house ... ”The autobiographical book“ Roman-Monation ”, also presented in this collection, was over a year before death. It was reflected in almost the entire life path of the author, the path that is closely intertwined with the most dramatic events of the 20th century. The heroes of the book (many of whom became prototypes of the characters of his stories and novels) - the author himself, his family and friends, all those with whom fate was faced with, “the generation of children of the revolution, who survived the collapse of its ideals, turned into camp dust in the thirties who died in Sorokovs on the fields of war.