Orestes and son

Elena Chizhova is the author of the novels "women's Time", "old Terracotta", "Laurel", "Crumb Zaches", "half-Breed". People at the turn of epochs - the important thing in all the novels of novelist: the action takes place in the sixties or in the years of perestroika.
Roman "Orestes and son - the story of three generations of one of the Petersburg family: grandfather, father and son. The seventies. Orest - chemist - faces a difficult choice: to accept the offer of a mysterious organization and to continue his father (a talented chemist who was repressed in the thirties) or, as before, to develop a caramel essences?
Anton, the son of Orestes, and his girlfriend Inna and Kseniya - at first glance, ordinary Leningrad high school students. They read books and listen to modern music. They are interested in ancient myths, and American rock Opera learn about Jesus Christ. Intuitively they understand that not so much, as they say on TV, and want to know the truth. But who will help them in this? Maybe the all-powerful tower of Savior from the program "Time"? One only has to make a wish...

"Roman "Orestes and the son can be seen as a tragedy, or rather, a detailed tragic metaphor of the Soviet era."
Konstantin Azadovsky