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On the Sunny Side of the Street

On the Sunny Side of the Street

16 hrs. 43 min.
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I’m often asked: where can one see paintings by Vera Scheglova? I don’t know what to answer. I’m afraid to disappoint readers by saying that my novel’s heroine is only a figment of imagination. I hide the fact that even the famous jazz composition that gave the title to the book, I listened to only recently—and I was surprised by how little it moved me.

If you think about it, my “native” city—so painfully real in the novel dedicated to it—no longer exists in the world; there is another one that has nothing to do with me. So what, in the end, is real—damn it? Is it only the sunlight that flooded its streets, our childhood and youth, our love—our whole life…

Attention! The audio recording contains profanity.
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