The latest author's edition of the novel "The Saga of the Pevzners" 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 of his lines is a bare nerve, stretched to the limit as a string, 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. The book also includes included several new stories `from the foreign cycle` and the story `Dima, Tim and so on...` for the younger generation of readers.