I Planned an Escape...

The family saga «I Planned an Escape...» has become a kind of culmination of diverse searches and one of the peaks of domestic novel writing in the 20th century. Yuri Polyakov, telling the story of an ordinary couple, the Bashmakovs, immerses us in the complex, changing, and subtle world of the relationship between a man and a woman, bound by habitual love and obligations. The family drama unfolds against the backdrop of significant historical events — the last years of the existence and collapse of the great country called «USSR». Since its writing, this book has gone through about twenty editions and continues to be in demand among discerning readers. The novel «I Planned an Escape...» has been adapted into a film and translated into many languages.