the swallow nest

The novel "Lastochkino Nest" completes the Trilogy-Khronika Anna Stepanskoy, begun by the novels "Old Album" and "Order of Words". The trilogy unfolds before the reader a panorama of life in the USSR in the 40s and 80s of the last century, against which the life of an ordinary Jewish family takes place.
Holocaust and war, the first post -war years and Brezhnev’s stagnation, ostentatious internationalism and real anti -Semitism, maximalism of youth and hypocrisy of the system of boning in front of the eyes - through all this is the heroine of the trilogy.
Family chronicle turns into an honest and impartial story about the Soviet Empire that has sunk into the summer of life. There were three schools in my life. All three are very different, like three different lives, three very different colors ... The first is where I was a student. She would suit her bright, sunny paint. The second - where I became a teacher. I would paint this two colors: hopelessly dark and bright. And finally, the third - which I tried to create in a very, very different life. A lot of colors mixed here, imperceptibly turning one into another - and completely contrasting.

About the first school where I studied, I already happened to tell. Now the turn of my second school, where I not only did not strive, but from which I could evade, avoiding the honorary role of the Soviet teacher. However, fate found me. She is a harsh lady, and on the stove, they say, will find.
Anna Stepanskaya