Yuliy Krelin’s latest novel comes to readers. Here is what Alexander Gorodnitsky writes about his friend and his books: “Juliy Krelin was an outstanding, talented doctor, a professional surgeon of the highest qualifications, who worked in the clinic for about sixty years and saved the lives of hundreds of people. With nostalgic pain, I remember him sitting in his office, always in a snow-white robe, which looked especially elegant on him, with a beard and an invariable pipe, reminiscent of his belonging to the Hemingway tribe, and a mysterious ring on his finger. Despite his short stature and bald head, he was irresistibly handsome and moved with unique grace. Women around were dying. This applied not only to nurses and medical doctors, but also to many others. He was well aware of this all his life and remained a man literally until his last days. It is no coincidence that he called his last, unpublished novel “Love and Whoredom”...