The famous “Heaven of the Fallen,” which has undergone more than a dozen reprints since 1998 and became the literary basis for the much-discussed film “Flight of the Corsair.” Here you can feel the author’s keen interest in the “oddities of love,” the fate of feelings, the fateful duel of soul and flesh. As always, the reader will find in Yuri Polyakov’s prose gripping plots, social sharpness, psychological credibility, subtle humor, and refined eroticism.