Returning from the fair

Having emigrated at the peak of Brezhnevsky stagnation, the author at 37 was in New York. What the emigration gave him, what she took - the subject of understanding in this book. Dmitry Tarasenkov grew up in the Moscow literary environment. Father, nomenclature critic, was a sign figure in the system of socialist realism. The son worked on Radio Liberty. There was, like his father, an avid collector of books. He saw the world, knew many outstanding people. Shaking the kaleidoscope of his life, the memoirist is skeptical of the established stereotypes - he can’t occupy an evil memory, he with the cheerful surprise transmitted to the reader, shares the details of his “here” and “there” world