“Writer on the roads of Exodus. From where and to where? – the title of a book by essayist, literary critic and prose writer Evsey Tseytlin. And the route of his literary travels is clarified by the words that the author repeats more than once: “We are still walking through a symbolic desert.” On the road, the reader will discover the “unknown land”: everyday life, problems, faces of today's literary emigration. Usually, when talking about foreign writers, several famous names come to mind. Evsey Tseytlin's attention is drawn primarily to those who “remained in the shadows.”