Favorites in three volumes. Volume 1. Novels

This volume includes three novels. Their heroes are "ordinary" (almost Chekhovsky) small people with their dumps and sorrows - this is how the critic Alena Bondareva represents them. “And the most terrible thing that can happen according to these characters is the collapse of the house.” This is in a private sense. In global - countries. " But this is what the twentieth century prepared for them. “Through the window of the destroying house, Shcherbakov looks at the history and politics of our country. While her heroes arrange their personal lives, someone on the barricades fired at the White House ... takes into account the family of the famous scientist living in the neighborhood ... organizes terrorist attacks in the subway ... "The logic of history. We now pay not even for our mistakes, but for the mistakes of our grandfathers and great -grandfathers. A hundred years ago, Russia could not resist the temptation of grandiose violence and an unprecedented robbery of its own compatches. For such a stiffness (recall the "Cursed Days" of Bunin), you have to pay more than one, not two, not three, but already four generations. This is the degree of rock. And the heroes of the novels "Fiery Broke", "Lizonka and all the others", "Angel of the Dead Lake" are not able to evade the inevitable options for such a reckoning