Azart

A young underground artist, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, becomes in demand in Europe.

His paintings are exposed in galleries, and he himself receives endless invitations to creative meetings and Biennale. It is not surprised when the rich connoisseur of contemporary art invites him to live for six weeks on his yacht in a kind of creative commune.

Hero with his wife and seven -year -old son leaves a close city apartment and set off towards a salt sea breeze, a delicate noise of waves and a mental noise of waves and warm sun.

but, having arrived in Amsterdam, the artist discovers that a yacht is a rusty dish with a broken motor and a hole on board.

no one has money for its repair, and creative The commune is an Oxford historian, a left activist, a bald actor with a Taganka, a Serbian poet with a world -famous combine dealer, a musician playing tin banks and another half a dozen of the strangest characters.

heroes, on the one hand, on the one hand They are trying to repair the ship and sail away, and on the other hand, they gradually sell it in parts for the sake of food and drink.

And the novel itself suddenly turns into a parable about the construction of the ark and the place of a person in this world.