Collected Works. Volume 9. 2016-2019. The Joyful Life, or Sex in the USSR

In his provocative novel titled «The Joyful Life, or Sex in the USSR», Yuri Polyakov transports us to the year 1983.

The author masterfully recreates a long-gone world with a sly sense of nostalgia. As always, the reader can expect a virtuoso-constructed plot intertwined with big politics, nomenklatura games, intrigues of the creative milieu, and daring love adventures. «Chronicle of those years» is written vividly and wittily, with a language that is rich in imagery and aphorisms.

One critic aptly called Polyakov's new novel «The Decameron of the Stagnation Era».