Favorites in 4 volumes. Alexander Lapin

The novel “Russian Cross” is a large-scale “Saga about generation”, about those whose youth coincided with a serene period of stagnation and who in the 90s came the main blow, demanding the choice of the path, the redrawing of the worldview, and the creation of a new picture of the world. More than twenty turning out of the recent years of the latest history of Russia are revealed in the vicissitudes and turns of the fate of several school friends. The reader meets them very young and traces the difficult fate of yesterday's classmates from book to book.

The first three books of the novel - “Lost Paradise”, “The Blue Generation”, “Good Wishes” - cover the period of youth, growing up and the formation of the main characters. Recent school friends are looking for their path in life, and this difficult period for each first love, the first difficult decisions, the first trials and errors occurs against the background of a dramatically changing around the country, drawing them into an unprecedented whirlpool of events. The final three books of the novel - “Vorters of Changes”, “Wolf Songs”, “Time to Live” - continue the story of the life of matured, mature friends of youth. All attributes of difficult time are present here: the change of power, the collapse of the country, military operations, the formation of a market economy, gang show. The heroes of the novel fight and adapt, defeat and lose, love and hate - in a fierce variable world, everyone for himself and their closest. They fall in love, part, make mistakes, go forward, defending their truth, changing with the country. Each of them has its own fate, and together it is the fate of the generation.

The next volume of the “Favorite” included two novels by Alexander Lapin. In the "holy sinners", the heroes of the prose cycle "Russian Cross" are approaching readers are approaching the next life line. But this is not a traditional sequel in the genre "twenty years later." In the center of the novel is the spiritual searches of the heroes. At the same time, the writer avoids rolling into edification and builds an exciting plot. In the end, by the will of the author, all the heroes - a monk and a layman, a Christian and a pagan, a Muslim, Buddhist - will converge in the right place at the right time. How it ends, the reader finds out. The Crimean Bridge is a travel novel in three dimensions at once: in space, in time and in the maze of the human soul. The main character will go to wander around the world in search of light and simple truths, on which human life has been standing from time immemorial. Masons and Templars, ancient Sparta and timeless Athos, Russian and French revolutions, kings, Secretary Generals and presidents - what kind of “milestone pillars” will not put a whimsical fate on his way to himself, in the final of which is the Crimean spring, the revival of life, the revival of love. The reader who is ready to divide with the hero all the hardships and all triumphs of this trip will never be bored.

The Trilogy “The Book of the Living” is a kind of continuation of the epic “Russian Cross”, the novels “Holy Sinners” and “Crimean Bridge”, connected with them with common heroes. She completes the Saga about the generation that came into life in the early 60s of the XX century. The book was compiled by three very different ones - both in scale and in the genre - works. “Roman and Daria” - a story about love, forced to resist society, still split into “red” and “white”, the novel “Super Khan” is a political detective, whose action unfolds in a “marvelous new world” erected on the wreckage of the USSR, And the philosophical parable “viruses” - an understanding of the experience imposed on us with pandemia. Together they reveal the most acute topics of our relations with today's world: man and society, man and power, man and nature. In addition to the trilogy, this volume of the “chosen one” included the philosophical essay “I believe” and journalism that allow the author to penetrate deeper into the creative world of the author.