Aleksei Motorov is the author of brilliant memoirs about working in the intensive care unit of one of Moscow’s hospitals. His first book, “The Young Years of Parovozov’s Medic,” enjoyed enormous reader success, became “Book of the Month” in the “Moskva” bookstore, entered the longlist of the “The Big Book” award, and won the Prize of Reader’s Sympathy of the “NOS” literary award.
In “The Crime of Doctor Parovozov,” Motorov continues the story of his life. His student years fell on the turbulent and hungry 1990s. While studying at medical school, he worked in all sorts of places before becoming a doctor at the First City Hospital. Witfully and engagingly he describes the crazy hospital routine—funny and dramatic cases from his practice—childhood in the pioneer camps of the late 1970s and the October coup of 1993, when, as a urologist, he had to operate on unusual patients.