“Slaves of New York” is either a collection of short stories or a novel in episodes, the main characters of which are the city of New York and its eccentric and not entirely sane inhabitants. Unrecognized geniuses, roguish gallery owners, gloomy alcoholics, prostitutes with pretensions to righteousness - they all collide with each other in chaotic movement at vernissages, in the Gulag Archipelago bar, in nightclubs and at fashionable resorts. The book became a brilliant debut of a writer who, with Since then, he has been unconditionally recognized as a singer of New York bohemia.

Translation from English by Vera Prorokova.