Neokonchatelnyy diagnoz

V svoem novom romane "Neokonchatelnyy diagnoz" Nilin rasskazyvaet o druzyah i sovremennikah, izvestnyh shirokomu chitatelyu, i o blizkih, sostavlyayuschih semeynyy krug. Sredi pervyh - Viktor Shklovskiy, Evgeniy Evtushenko i Evgeniy Reyn, Anatoliy Nayman, Igor Kio, Leonid i Galina Brezhnevy, Mihail Ardov, Aleksandr Maryamov, Viktor Merezhko i mnogie drugie. Ryadom - zhena Natalya Ivanova, otets Pavel Nilin i brat Mihail. A takzhe universitetskie ekzameny, lyubimye mesta "Aeroport" i Peredelkino, "Mashin kashtan" - vse to, chto sam avtor nazyvaet "neutrachennymi illyuziyami".
"Mne kazhetsya, cherez svoyu zhizn ya ispolzoval vozmozhnost izobrazit i vremya, v kotorom zhil, - i prodolzhenie dolzhno bylo by posledovat".