The area of ​​the struggle. Minaev B.D.

“The eleven -year -old Mishka Soloviev, the war, was to his liking. On the streets of the city it became noisy, fun and stupid. The terrible - and it grew along with the festive - was not yet realized by the bear. However, this could be said not only about children. Many adults seemed to hesitate between a feeling of horror and a holiday in those days. ” In the center of the new novel by Boris Minaev is the image of military Moscow, the fate of its adults and young inhabitants, the interweaving of personal history with the history of Russia of the 20th century. For the heroes of the novel, the Second World War is not a feat, not heroism, but ordinary everyday life. Days and nights of military and post -war Moscow, marriages and birth, illness and loss, the heat of human relations and the cold of close death. Big and terrible historical events are not able to change the eternal drawing of human existence. In the novel, some lines of the writer's previous books are continued - “Batist” and “cloth.”