Reflections of the room in a Christmas ball

Roman famous writer, master of modern prose Leonid Bezhina "reflection of the room in the Christmas ball" - about Moscow of the fifties and sixties.
The author tells how he returned from Stalin camps, celebrated the new year in Arbat communals (the room was reflected in the Christmas balls) and went to the cottage, as the last mystical circles disappeared and the first English schools appeared.
Moscow topic in the novel is connected to the biblical: the time described was noted by the signs of the apostles and evangelists - Peter and Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, whose images are also reconstructed in the novel.
Gold biblical thread in the fabric of the Bezhian narration climbs him into the crowd of the afterbank Russian prose. Matte muffled gamma removes the feeling of plot motion (although the action is branched) A calm thoughtful, sympathy view of people relatives to the bezhina with the classics of Russian psychological realism (Lev Anninsky)