The hero of the new novel of Anatoliy Kurchatkin - a talented poet, eccentric personality. Mid-sixties of the last century, raised in the air, alarm Soviet strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs on board, and the middle of the first decade of the new century, meet on the track in Sokolniki Park with the Kremlin official, transfer to a bribe in the form of packs of "green" - it's the hero's life . Two narrative flow, historical and modern, flowing at the same time, drawing the reader a clear and expressive portrait of the time. Anatoliy Kurchatkin was born November 23, 1944 in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the Literary Institute in 1972 and worked as a milling machine technician and designer (1962-1963), correspondent for the Sverdlovsk youth newspaper (1966-1967), in the editorial offices "Nash Sovremennik" (1971-1972) and "Student Meridian" (1973 -1977 years). Prints prose since 1973, as well as essays and articles on contemporary Russian reality and literature. Worked as a journalist with Radio Svoboda. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1977). Author of novels Tsunami, Flight of Shmel, the Sun was shining, the publication at different times of publisher Vremya.
