On the sunny side of the street. Rubin D.

Dina Rubina’s novel is an unexpected virtuoso somersault “under the dome of literature”, the absolute transformation of the writer's style, his usual intonation and a circle of topics.. Katya is saved thanks to the evacuation in a relatively safe Tashkent, which became the second home for thousands of Soviet citizens who fled from the Nazi invasion. The girl Katya gets into the Tashkent criminal environment, turns into a talented swindler and "works" in the Tashkent markets. Later, her daughter Vera is born out of marriage. Little faith does not suspect the mother’s business... The girl is growing surrounded by people of different nationalities - Russians, Uzbeks, Jews, Ukrainians... Once she saves a drunkard who is called by Uncle Misha, and it is he who guesses an artistic talent and begins to develop him. Later, Vera will survive in the destructive Tashkent earthquake of 1966 and will become a world -famous artist.

the fate of the heroes of the novel, in the “high -voltage” plot, love and crimes, a talent and passion capable of destroying a person or bringing to the heights of creativity are intertwined.

Open this novel - and you will not be released by a truly Babylonian crowd of types: urban madmen and drunks, Russian nobles, exiled and served by the time of the convicts, “white colonialists” and “hunters for shit”...