Leonov's Cactus

Bright, lively, self-ironic notes by Katya Tarasova, a translator from Japanese, who has traveled half the world — for work and just for fun. She has translated many wonderful books, worked as a translator for one of the Prime Ministers... of Japan, spent about a year at a car factory in Tolyatti, and even once organized a tour in Japan for the band "Night Snipers" and went with them...
Katya brilliantly tells about herself, her family, her dogs, numerous encounters, her experience in a psychiatric hospital, as well as close and distant acquaintances — people who struck her to the core. She effortlessly moves from Moscow to Tel Aviv and Osaka, from Evenkia to the Riga Maskachka, collecting incredible cases and funny anecdotes, to remind herself and her readers how truly amazing and unpredictable life is!