The last completed novel of the prematurely deceased prose writer Anatoly Afanasyev. His sharp-edged, satirical works became bestsellers for Soviet and Russian readers. Anatoly Afanasyev’s new novel is a true masterpiece that tells what will happen to Russia if the people continue to not intervene in what’s going on in our country—unquestioningly trusting authorities and politicians. At the center of the story is the fate of a man of letters who is, by circumstance, drawn close to one of today’s oligarchs. He is hired to sing his employer’s “deeds,” but fate intervenes in the measured course of his life in the form of the oligarch’s daughter…