Attempts to make clarity

The collection opens the story Attempts to make clarity. Written in the form of a retrospective diary of the end of the seventies, the story reflects on love and loneliness, about the search for understanding and the impossibility of understanding, about the relationship in our life of the real and invented. In the novel, the “choir of veterans”, the author creates a convincing picture of the Council of Soviets that is leaving the past. The stories “In the footsteps of the American tragedy”, “Italian films on Greek Street”, “Promoter”, “Google maps”, “House on the 52nd quarter”, “Shanghai” transmit the complex world of a person who left Russia and nevertheless forever connected with her. Short stories Happy New Year, sir! And the “hearts of five” thematically continue the story “Attempts to make clarity” and will set the reader in a lyrical way. You will again feel the fever of the first feelings - naive, funny, ridiculous, but from this even more nimble. The collection is completed by the story “Farewell bonfire”, where the author, transferring us together with the lyrical hero to different temporary layers, again returns to the topics of a departed country, memory and inextricability of the past and the present