The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a t

In this satire of Soviet life, novelist Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is goiving out fur hats to its members according to their importance.

From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of