In the book “We Can’t Survive the Winter,” Alexander Kabakov collected his most confessional, frank writings. There are always two heroes - he and she; their relationship is not simple, full of difficulties and always sad - be it a romance between a popular singer and a classical pianist, or a chance meeting on a train... Moreover, these stories take place in the turbulent nineties, a time of “delusional visions and disruption of normal life.” The collection includes the novel “The Late Guest”, stories “The Party Girl and the Poker Man”, “We Can’t Survive the Winter.”