About the book: 1988 / Novels about Russian people who, at the beginning of the century, found themselves outside their homeland by the will of circumstances; about the fate of an entire generation of Russian emigrants. In the center is the image of our contemporary Elena Savchuk. In the first part of the dilogy, the reader is shown her childhood and youth in Harbin, her long-awaited return to the Soviet Union in the 50s. The second part is the now adult heroine’s trip to Australia to visit her relatives, to those who 30 years ago, faced with a choice, chose an “overseas paradise.” The happiness of finding a homeland, a feeling of inextricable unity with her destiny, awareness of her filial duty to her - this is the leitmotif novels.