Shanghai. Love Black. Chekunov V.

The protagonist of the novel by Vadim Chekunov "Shanghai" lives in the Middle Kingdom. There were in the Russian past: a terrorist attack on Kashirka, after which the hero made the final decision to leave Russia, the beloved and Western ex-wife and the entire Russian culture as a whole, the appeals to which the novel is filled.

and suddenly, an inaccurate gift of heaven , in his life comes the love of a young Chinese girl, in a dress of red silk, where wasp, flowers and dragons are embroidered with gold. Love, which is beautiful as life, and is inevitable, as death...

The theme of death - the future, inevitable - is constantly present in the text, ranging from the explosion on the Kashirsky highway and ending with a terrible earthquake in Sichuan. Of the ethnographic notes, the author created a confessional novel about the life and love of a Russian person abroad.