Визит нестарой дамы

Description Maria Arbatova, with caustic sarcasm, overthrows all conceivable authorities in order to erect her own - Love and Freedom - on a pedestal. This is the first novel by a famous playwright and TV presenter, the novel is a hoax, where real characters and events from the life of artistic and literary bohemia are guessed. The plot is built as a series of psychological traps, forcing each of the characters to look at themselves and others with new eyes. Before us is an ironic biography of a generation of forty-year-olds who went through the meat grinder of reforms, changed along with the country and at the same time tried to preserve the ideals of youthful friendship. Comment

... What would you say if a gorgeous stranger came to your friend's house from across the ocean, about whom you know nothing, and who, in turn, knows everything about your past, about the habits of your parents about your childhood fears, your creative ambitions and your first sexual experience? It is in this situation that the heroine of Maria Arbatova finds herself, the fashionable Moscow artist Irina. A little later, she begins to understand that the only goal of the American woman of Russian origin who settled with her is to find out the details of today's life of Irina and her school friends...