About the book: year / Pyotr Aleshkovsky - prose writer, historian, author of many books, including "Fortress" (Russian Booker Prize), "Fish", " Harlequin". “Secrets” is an unimagined novel of education. This is a book about childhood and adolescence, about growing up, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Moscow courtyards and Soviet schools, teenage rebellions and family secrets, jeans and Beatles records... The author explores the past and the “secrets” that were kept under glass for the time being..