Boris Nosik is known as a biographer of Akhmatova, Modigliani, Nabokov, Schweitzer, as the author of popular books and television films about France, as a brilliant translator of English-language writers, but above all, as a prose writer, smart and ironic. “Text” is releasing his fourth book, which includes novellas and short stories written over thirty years. Boris Nosik's heroes are often unsettled people, sometimes ridiculous, but always internally free. Freedom is also characteristic of the author's style - it combines light humor and caustic satire, attention to everyday details and unbridled imagination.