Harry Borisovich Gordon is a poet, prose writer and artist who was lucky to be born in Odessa (1941). In his novel “It’s Late. Dark. Far away” stand out as living pictures of Soviet Odessa, allowing you to plunge into the unforgettable flavor of the most amazing city in the territory of the former USSR. This novel is a lyrical narrative about the value and uniqueness of an individual human destiny in the fate of an entire generation. The author warns that the book cannot be considered an autobiography or memoir, although it was written “based on life and spiritual experience.” For the sake of artistic truth, the author “had to distort images and facts, fight, if not with time, then with chronology, so that in a sense the novel can be called historical... In the process of work, the author was surprised and pleased to discover that ends meet are not made, but the meaning of life has become even more vague than before. It turned out that this is a book about love...”