A talented writer Irina Chaikovskaya, who left our country at the dawn of the “transitional era,” captured in her new book one of the most important aspects of that time: the experience of turning the “Soviet person” into the “cosmopolitan person.” After living seven years in Italy and then moving to America, she describes her impressions of the new world she entered with her family and the people she encountered along the way—each of them a person in their own right. For the most part, they are her students, who learn the secrets of the Russian language under her guidance. Irina Chaikovskaya teaches them what she knows wonderfully—and, in turn, learns a great deal from them.
The reader of this book is in for an exciting journey through countries and, as one might say, human relationships.