Homer, son of Mandelstam

“Homer, the son of Mandelstam” is the second edition of the Roman “Homer” published ten years ago, and its new name was borrowed with the kind permission of Elena Zeiphart from her review, which appeared at the same time in the magazine “Banner”. Igor (Goshka) Merkushev, in childhood nicknamed Homer, is going to die on the day of his sixtieth anniversary - this is the only way he can drive into a trap that committed a serious crime and relentlessly pursued a senior official. Talking about himself, his parents, beloved women, friends and enemies, Mercushev, the once major medical scientist, and then the vice-mayor of the millionaire city, pronounces a phrase that could become not only an epigraph for his narrative, but also a diagnosis for unbearable painful breaking of eras: We are not lost, we are a sophisticated generation