The author of the book is the daughter of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky and the sister of the film director Andrei Tarkovsky. “Shards of the Mirror” are both stories about three generations of a family and memories themselves - funny and tragic. They preserved not only the disappearing time, but also the feelings and experiences of the characters: a tense dialogue between father and son - Arseny and Andrei Tarkovsky, the story of the relationship between parents, two strong personalities, “who could not be together, but could not work separately either.” .