Wise and ironic notes of a New York doctor. In this metropolis, many cultures and traditions coexist. Just like on a map, the destinies of the most different people intertwine here. His story about the residents of wards, corridors, and doctors’ offices in New York hospitals is told by an oncologist. The one who thinks and makes decisions calmly when others panic. Helps when help is needed. Smiles if it’s funny, because life is amazing and so unpredictable—and it continues here, in the oncology center wards. Big things are seen from a distance. That’s why the author begins his story about studying the world and people in New York and ends it in an ashram in New Delhi. Writer, poet, and oncologist Alexander Stesin ended up in the United States at eleven and managed to get a literary education first and then medical education, win several prestigious awards in the field of literature, and his novel about a doctor’s everyday work “New York Round” received the “NOS” award (2019) and made the long list of the “Big Book” (2020). Listen to the audio version of this poignant documentary novel performed by journalist and radio host Oleg Bulgak. —