Ludmila Ulitskaya has often been called an exceptionally attentive witness of an era—its sharp observer and interpreter. Perhaps this applies most of all to the novel «The Green Tent». A novel about the generation that had to come of age during the Thaw, choose a fate in the 1960s, pay their bills in the 1970s—and on from there… as it turns out, for everyone in a different way. A kaleidoscope of fates from Stalin’s death to Brodsky’s death, a chorus of voices and solo parts, the intertwining of historical reality and fiction…