Anna Blundy

Chapter OneIt was on the news. A hard fact now, illustrated by short scenes, brightly lit and frenetically cut together to demonstrate, perhaps, the dynamism of the forthcoming police investigation, the dedication of the reporter bringing you the breaking news live as it happens, or even, perhaps,...

PrologueMoscow 1989There was a do at Dom Literatov, the literary house. I remember that much. Some author, Limonov maybe, was launching his book and all the foreigners with pretensions to speaking Russian or knowing anything about anything were going. I wore a short, tight, black velvet dress with...

v.OneAt first she tried to pretend she couldn't find it. The light was yellowing to darkness outside and the snow was coming in fat lazy flakes. She beetled about her tiny flat, slippers flapping at the soles of her feet and dangly earrings bobbing by her powdery cheeks.I was desperate to get back...

Hihetetlen nyomor és mesés gazdagság, mocsok és pompa, vodka és pezsgő, csábítás és csalódás, szerelem, szex, szépség, bűnözés, korrupció, prostitúció, gyilkosság. Mindennek a hátterében a Szovjetunió felbomlása, a kommunizmust felváltó vadkapitalizmus a maga...