Return. A Serious Memoir

«In general, Masha Slonim. Whatever you report about her, it's less than what she is» (poet Anatoly Naiman). The granddaughter of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and the USSR Ambassador to the USA Maxim Litvinov, daughter of sculptor Ilya... Slonim, the legendary beauty of Moscow in the 70s, confidante of Joseph Brodsky, widow of an English lord — such a person has much to tell! And this is just the facts from her personal and family history. There is also the history of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, in which Masha Slonim, a hereditary rebel and dissident, played her part.
Before emigration, she participated in the rescue of Solzhenitsyn's Archive after his arrest and miraculously avoided repression herself. In emigration — an employee of the famous publishing house «Ardis», a journalist for the BBC in its golden era.
In the perestroika Moscow, she was a witness and participant of the era of free speech… The long-awaited memoirs of Masha Slonim are both a spy action and a dramatic confession, jokes of the 20th century, and portraits of the famous of this world. The book reflects Masha's special talent — the ability to relate to life easily and fearlessly, valuing freedom and individuality above all else.