Winterijs

von Peter van Gestel

1947 god. Poslevoyennyy Amsterdam. Zimniy led ne tol'ko na ulitsakh goroda, no i v zhizni lyudey, stremyashchikhsya obresti khot' kakoye-to ravnovesiye. Desyatiletniy Tomas zhivet vdvoyem s ottsom-mechtatelem, kotoryy perekhodit s odnoy raboty na druguyu i nikak ne mozhet smirit'sya so smert'yu materi mal'chika. I syn ostayetsya prakticheski bez yego vnimaniya. U kazhdogo v etom gorode v eto vremya - po takoy istorii. Chto ikh otogrevayet - eto druz'ya i razgovory. Druz'ya Tomasa - yego rovesnik, tikhiy mal'chik Pit Zvan, ch'i roditeli stali zhertvami Kholokosta, i strogaya trinadtsatiletnyaya Bet Zvan, v kotoruyu Tomas vlyublen.

Vmeste s Tomasom i yego druz'yami my poznayem vnutrenniy mir lyudey, postradavshikh ot voyny, i raduyemsya kazhdomu luchu solntsa v ikh zhizni.