Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) - an outstanding writer, a pioneer of modern literature - appears before the Russian reader in a kind of biography, a kind of look from the other side at the events described by Hemingway in the novel “The Holiday That Always Comes With You”. This fake the autobiography, written on behalf of Gertrude Stein's long-term friend and lover, violates all the rules of grammar and the rules of life itself, but it brought the writer well-deserved fame. Writers and artists, cultural figures, whose efforts “shaped the facial expression” of the twentieth century, will go through the pages in succession this book. This novel can be read in different ways - as an artistic reference book and guide to the avant-garde workshops and stages of Paris, as a historical narrative and, finally, as a psychological and stylistic masterpiece.