“The eternal exile”, “the most famous parasite”, “a poet without a pedestal” - in the 25 years after Brodsky’s death, so much has been said about him and his work that there is nothing to add. And now - the appearance of such a “Tarantino” book, written by an author of the next generation. New book by Vadim Mesyats “Uncle Joe. An Affair with Brodsky” reveals unknown pages from the life of the Nobel laureate and hints that reality could have been completely different. Despite the adventurous and even fantastical plot, the novel is autobiographical. The action takes place in the 90s of the last century in New York. The heroes of the book, along with Brodsky, were Ernst Neizvestny, Sergei Kuryokhin, Andrey Bitov, Alexey Parshchikov, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Dmitry Prigov, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Elena Schwartz, Tatyana Tolstaya, Pyotr Weil, Alexander Genis and other famous people.