About the book: 2000 / Svetlana Schönbrunn's multifaceted, rich in unique signs of the times and precise characteristics, novel "Roses and Chrysanthemums" is dedicated to the first post-war years. His heroes are inhabitants of Moscow communal apartments, people with different views, habits and destinies, who are united by common troubles and hopes. This is the story of a generation that spent its childhood in evacuation and returned to Moscow with already matured souls - the generation from which the sixties came.