Boris Mikhailovich Nosik, the author of numerous books and television films about Russian emigration in France, is primarily a prose writer - smart, ironic and sad. in his novels, stories, sadness and laughter go hand in hand and tragedy coexists with farce, Boris Nosik’s heroes are unlucky, unsettled people, but they always retain inner freedom and self-esteem. The sixth book of his prose, published by “Text”, the author compiled from works that he considers the most successful.