Peredelkino: Over the Fences

Alexander Nilin is a prose writer, memoirist, and author of many biographical books. “Peredelkino: Over the Fences” is an autobiographical novel, where the characters are united by place and time. The dacha village of writers “Peredelkino” today is almost a myth and at the same time one of the most popular places in the Moscow region. The author has lived here since the day of his birth. With a tone that is both ironic and sympathetic, Alexander Nilin tells about the neighbors in the writers' town, among whom are Boris Pasternak, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Alexander Fadeev, Konstantin Simonov, and Valentina Serova, the Chukovsky family, the Katayev family, the author of “The Brest Fortress” Sergey Smirnov; the permanent residents of the famous House of Creativity Gennady Shpalikov, the author of “Hedgehog in the Fog” Sergey Kozlov, the detective writers the Vainer brothers… Relying on the exclusive memory of his own, in this “novel of private life,” the author connects the first impressions of a child with observations and reflections from later years. A new revised edition.