"At the center of the narrative of this sometimes shocking, sharp and painful book is a Woman. The heroine, a parachutist and hot air balloon pilot in her youth, having experienced a personal tragedy, is forced to do a completely different business in another country, one might say, through the looking glass: she is a cosmetologist, lives and works in New York. A whole string of strange characters passes before her eyes, because, due to the nature...

"V ėpokhu, kogda literatura bukvalʹno "sryvaet golos" v popytkakh perekrichatʹ vopli, vizg i vzryvy informat︠s︡ionnogo poli︠a︡; kogda pisateli li︠u︡boĭ t︠s︡enoĭ starai︠u︡tsi︠a︡ zakhvatitʹ vnimanie chitateli︠a︡ shokirui︠u︡shchimi i dazhe ledeni︠a︡shchimi si︠u︡zhetami; v ėpokhu povsemestnykh feĭkov, utraty doverii︠a︡ drug k drugu i zabytʹi︠a︡ samikh sebi︠a︡...- Dina Rubina pishet knigu, polnui︠u︡...