Dina Rubina. On the Sunny Side of the Street

Dina Rubina's new novel is a novelty in every sense of the word: an unexpected and virtuoso somersault "under the dome of literature," a complete transformation of the writer's style, his usual intonation, and range of themes.
The fates of the novel's heroes are bizarre; love and crime, talent and passion, capable of destroying a person or elevating him to the heights of creativity, are intertwined in a "high-voltage" plot.
Open this novel and you will be captivated by the truly Babylonian pandemonium of characters: urban madmen and alcoholics, Russian nobles, exiles and ex-convicts, "white colonizers" and "hashish hunters"...