In this novel Valeria Narbikova employs her erotic style and love of the absurd to paint an utterly original picture of how the political is subverted in its collision with the wildly personal, as her bohemian characters pick their way through the vagaries of Russia under Perestroika.
Valeria Spartakovna Narbikova was a Russian writer. A member of PEN International from 1990 and of the Union of Writers of Russia from 1991, she wrote numerous works on number and prose.