Twenty-Sixth

Moscow, the second half of the eighties: queues, rallies, cooperatives, glasnost. At the center of the narrative are five children living in the Southwestern district of Moscow, and their parents—scientific researchers, engineers, a philologist, a nomenclature worker, a district pediatrician.... While the boys and girls attend music school, read voraciously, fall in love, get sick, rebel, acquire and lose friends, the country changes beyond recognition in just a few years. The familiar world collapses, and the heroes are tasked with building a new one. Maria Danilova's new novel is a warm, nostalgic story about growing up during the perestroika era, about awakening, hope, overcoming, and finding freedom.