'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality
slipping away' THE TIMES 'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light
in touch' MOSCOW TIMES In a small apartment in New York, in the
sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres gather
around the sickbed of an artist named Alik. Nina, his wife, is
desperate for Alik to be baptised; Irina, his ex-lover, a circus
acrobat turned lawyer, quietly pays the bills; elderly Maria
dispenses magical herbs; and Maika, Irina's fifteen-year-old
daughter, prepares to lose the only man to make her laugh. As the
visitors fuss and reminisce over Alik, in a corner of the crowded
room the television shows the uprising outside the White House in
Moscow and the tanks closing in on the city . . .
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