Peredelkino: Over the Fences. Part 4. The Writers' Retreat

Alexander Nилин is a prose writer and memoirist, author of many biographical books. *Peredelkino: Beyond the Fences* is an autobiographical novel whose characters are united by place and time. Today, the dacha settlement of writers “Peredelkino” is almost a myth—and at the same time one of the most popular places in the Moscow region. The author has lived here since his birth. With an intonation that is both ironic and compassionate, Alexander Nилин tells about the neighbors in the writer’s town, among them Boris Pasternak, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Aleksandr Fadeev, Konstantin Simonov, and Valentina Serova; the Chukovsky families; the Kataevs; the author of *The Brest Fortress* Sergei Smirnov; and the permanent residents of the famous House of Creative Work—Gennady Shpalikov, the author of *Hedgehog in the Fog* Sergei Kozlov, detective writers the Vainers brothers… Relying on the exclusivity of his own memory, in his “novel of private life” the author connects the first impressions of a child with observations and reflections from later years. A new, expanded edition.