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 – scientists, engineers, a philologist, a party official, and a district pediatrician.

While the boys and girls attend music school, read voraciously, fall in love, get sick, rebel, make and lose friends, the country changes beyond recognition in just a few years.

The familiar world collapses, and the heroes must build a new one.

The new novel by Maria Danilova is a warm, nostalgic story about growing up during the perestroika, about awakening, hope, overcoming, and gaining freedom.