PolyaKov’s new novel is fun, lively, sharp—and unlike anything else.
In his new novel with the provocative title “A Fun Life, or Sex in the USSR,” Yuri Polyakov takes us to 1983. With skill and sly nostalgia, the author recreates a world long gone. As always, the reader is in for a masterfully twisted plot, where big politics, nomenklatura games, intrigues of the creative world, and risky love adventures are intertwined. “A Chronicle of Those Even Years” is written vividly and wittily, and the language is notable for its imagery and aphoristic flair. One of the critics aptly called Polyakov’s new novel “Decameron of the Era of Stagnation.”