Roses and chrysanthemums. In 2 books. SHENBRUNN S.

The end of the war and the beginning of peacetime. The difficulties of life and hopes for the best future. So the early childhood of the main character of the novel passes. Everything that happens in the life of the family is shown through the eyes of the child: both the extravagance of the mother, and the quirks of the grandmother, and the true love of the literature of her father and - like the turnover of the medal - his own pernicious habit of alcohol.

The first book of the novel “Roses and Chrysanthemums”, published in 2000 in the publishing house “Text”, in the same year entered the short list of the Russian Bouquer literary prize.

The second book of the novel takes place in the post-war decade. This is the time of growing up the heroine, the formation of her personality.

Svetlana Schlenbrunn was born in Moscow, lives in Jerusalem. Writer, journalist, translator, laureate of the Award of the Union of Israeli writers. In the “text” her novel “Pills of Happiness” and translations from Hebrew - novels, incisions, plays of world -famous Israeli writers.