Romain Gary (1914–1980) is a famous French writer, Russian by birth, member of the Resistance, personal friend of Charles de Gaulle, and a major diplomat. Having written almost three dozen novels, Gary became famous as the creator of the most sensational and tragic literary hoax of the 20th century, reincarnating as Emile Azhar and thus becoming the only two-time winner of the Goncourt Prize. A frivolous and exciting work, abundantly equipped with caustic English humor - “an edged weapon that strikes without missing a beat”: the novel “Lady L.”, the writer’s farewell gift to his first wife, resembles an elegant trinket. But only externally: “human, too human,” as always with Gary, breaks through...