In hell a breath of coolness

A new novel of Magsud Ibrahimbeyov will immediately evoke the reader the unique tone it is an old but unforgotten such prose - "Who will go to Truskavets", "For all the good - death", "Let him stay with us, And was no better than his brother"... After a long absence he returns to the Russian reader "Chronicles the transition period", placing this "period" the whole tragic core of the last century and life of his hero. School, front, pow camp, French partisan detachment commander Claude Vernier, the Soviet camp in Taishet, saffron farm in the Azerbaijani Amburan, love, rehab, French passport... Range of feelings - from "Oh, what a city!" (about his native Baku) to "easiest way to Die, but don't hold your breath". And, of course, always and everywhere, even in every dramatic episode - branded Makedonski humor, its barely noticeable smile in his mustache.