Shanghai. Love Black

The protagonist of the novel by Vadim Chekunov “Shanghai” lives in the Middle Kingdom. In the Russian past there were: a terrorist attack on Kashirka, after which the hero made the final decision to leave Russia, his beloved-Western ex-wife and all Russian culture as a whole, appeals to which the novel is filled.
And suddenly, an unexpected gift of heaven, a love for a young Chinese girl comes into his life, in a dress of red silk, where wasps, flowers and dragons are embroidered with gold. Love that is beautiful as life, and inevitable, like death ...
The theme of death - future, inevitable - is constantly present in the text, starting from the explosion on the Kashirsky highway to the terrible earthquake in Sichuan. Of the ethnographic notes, the author created a confessional novel about the life and love of a Russian person abroad