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One of Vasily Aksyonov's most famous novels is a mischievous, brilliantly written chronicle of the fictitious photo album Say Raisins. ... Several well-known Soviet photographers conceived the unthinkable for Soviet reality - to collect their work in one album and publish it bypassing censorship. The vigilant guards of the party ideology and "organs" (in the novel - "glands") begin to pursue "ideological saboteurs". Behind the fascinatingly invented story of the uncensored photo album "Say Raisins" one can guess the very real story of the famous literary almanac "Metropol", the authors of which swung at one of the cornerstones of the regime - censorship and paid for it, and for the masters of the lens, for the heroes of the book - metropolitans, famous writers and poets, including the author of the novel himself.