The social structure of Russian life, which turned upside down in August 1991, seemed to many young people to be abolishing the previously existing norms of human relations, the very laws of human existence in society. At once, ideas about what freedom, honor, dignity, and love are changed. Money has become the new absolute value of life. The heroine of the novel “A Brave New Life” (the title is an allusion to Aldous Huxley’s famous novel “A Brave New World!”), previously published under the title “Amazon,” had to go through many of the seductions of the present time, and had the chance to fully experience all of it. misconceptions A young, attractive, well-educated and intelligent woman, she wants to embody in her destiny that “picture” of life that is invisibly painted in the air of time with the brush of good dreams, but real life turns out to be much far from this picture. The novel “A Brave New Life” is an artistically verified, vividly and mercilessly told story of the 90s, a fascinating portrait of the era of the first years of post-Soviet Russia.