“The Saga of the Pevsners” is a merciless denunciation of the monstrous madness of terror, anti-Semitism, fascism, in all their obvious and hidden manifestations and consequences, which shredded the fate of several generations of one family and their homeland. Each line of the novel is a bare nerve, a string stretched to the limit, sounding in a majestic fugue - a chronicle of trials of the human spirit, but the humor that makes each of Aleksin’s works unforgettable, and the invincible power of life break through the bitterness and tragedy of the narrative with a bright, triumphant, all-resurrecting chord.