I Will Catch Up With You in Heaven

Several generations of readers grew up on the books of Rady Pетрович Pogodin. His fairy tales and works for teenagers — "Morning Shore", "Where the Clouds Come From", "The Azure Rooster of My Childhood" — have become an integral part of Soviet childhood. Pogodin's works have been adapted for the screen multiple times: "Dubravka", "Turn on the Northern Lights", "Step from the Roof". The writer approached the theme of war only in the early 1970s. A front-line scout who fought in the Great Patriotic War, wounded, and awarded two Orders of Glory and two Orders of the Red Banner, he knew well what war was, and in his — largely autobiographical — works, he did not deviate from the truth about it for a moment. A special place in Pogodin's work is occupied by the novel "I Will Catch Up With You in Heaven" — complex in form and yet painful in its simplicity and directness of meaning. A novel about war and blockade, about the fate of a person and a generation. This edition also includes stories dedicated to the post-war period — a time of scars that were marked, either visibly or invisibly, on everyone.