Эффект Ребиндера: роман

Babushka Lva speshno vozvrashaetsia iz Francii v Rossiu, obrievaet vse sviazi s rodniemi i nikogda ne upominaet o muje. Semia Kirie priachet fotografii ee teti ot postoronnih glaz, a Nadejda ne rasskazievaet ob otce-sviashennike daje detiam. Za vsem etim — raskulachivanie, ssielki, delo vrachei i, kak ni stranno, lubov, chto okazievaetsia strashnee voinie i smerti. Roman stanovitsia bolshe, chem semeinoi sagoi, poskolku ohvatievaet istoriu srazu neskolkih semei, obedinennieh uzami braka, izmenami i tragediiami XX veka. No eshe predstoiala vesna, gastroli genialnogo inostrannogo skripacha Isaaka Sterna, chto zanimalo Levu i ego druzei po klassu skripki gorazdo bolshe, chem proshedshii nedavno XX sezd partii. I hotia v vozduhe povisli vsevozmojniee i neveroiatniee sluhi, i hotia babushka s podrugami napriajenno sheptalas po vecheram, besprerievno povtoriaia imena Hrusheva i Stalina, viestuplenie Sterna zatmilo vse!Dlia lubitelei sovremennoi prozie, semeinieh sag i istorii obiechnieh ludei na fone bolshoi epohi. V tu nedelu shla «Ballada o soldate», Leva horosho zapomnil, potomu chto pomenial programmu — ne hotelos goniat priviechniee romansie na fone nastoiashei smerti i lubvi. On ostavil tolko melodii samieh izvestnieh voennieh pesen — «Zemlianka», «Temnaia noch», i splel ih proigrieshem iz Shostakovicha.

Lev's grandmother hurriedly returns from France to Russia, cuts off all ties with her family and never mentions her husband. Kira's family hides photos of her aunt from prying eyes, and Nadezhda does not tell about her father, the priest, even to children. Behind all this is dekulakization, exile, the work of doctors and, oddly enough, love, which turns out to be more terrible than war and death. The novel becomes more than a family saga, as it covers the history of several families united by marriage, betrayal and tragedies of the 20th century. But spring was still ahead, and the brilliant foreign violinist Isaac Stern was on tour, which occupied Lev and his friends in the violin class much more than the recent XX Party Congress. And although all sorts of incredible rumors hung in the air, and although grandma and her friends whispered tensely in the evenings, constantly repeating the names of Khrushchev and Stalin, Stern's performance overshadowed everything!For fans of modern prose, family sagas and stories of ordinary people against the background of a great era. That week, "The Ballad of a Soldier" was on, Lev remembered it well, because he changed the program — he didn't want to chase the usual romances against the background of real death and love. He left only the melodies of the most famous military songs — "Dugout", "Dark Night", and wove them with a Shostakovich concoction.