Веселая жизнь или Секс в СССР

In his new novel with the defiant title "Merry Life, or Sex in the USSR", Yuri Polyakov takes us to 1983. The author skillfully, with sly nostalgia, recreates a long-gone world. The reader, as always, is waiting for a masterfully twisted plot, in which big politics, nomenklatura games, intrigues of the creative environment and risky love adventures are intertwined. "The Chronicle of those still years" is written lively, witty, and the language is distinguished by figurativeness and aphorism. One of the critics aptly called Polyakov's new novel "the decameron of the era of socialism."