Olga Grushina was the first Russian citizen to receive an American higher education. Her writing career is no less unique: her first novel, “The Life of Sukhanov in Dreams,” despite its exotic subject matter for the American reader, caused a real sensation among both venerable critics and the general public, and became an international bestseller. Finally, the book is being published in Russia. Anatoly Sukhanov’s talent manifested itself early. His paintings, unusual and bright, fascinated Nina Malinina, the daughter of a high-ranking “art general.” But Anatoly made his life choice not in favor of art, but in favor of prestige and comfort, and turned from a creator into a critic, editor of the leading Soviet art journal. In 1985, the life of 56-year-old Sukhanov suddenly changes: in a series of unexpected incidents, dreams and hallucinations, he discovers the truth about the life and death of his father, about young Nina, tossing between painting and love... This is a novel about a whole layer of culture, about the interaction of art and politics and about the eternal questions of love and truth. For the first time in Russian.