About the book: 2011 / Anatoly Kuznetsov was born and raised in Kyiv, where during the occupation he witnessed mass executions at Babi Yar. This experience formed the basis of his most famous work, Babi Yar. In August 1969, A. Kuznetsov asked for political asylum and remained in Great Britain. His name ceased to be mentioned in the USSR, books were confiscated from stores and libraries. In London, A. Kuznetsov worked on Radio Liberty and hosted a weekly program under the heading “Writer at the Microphone” (a total of 233 conversations were broadcast), creating a number of examples of the so-called “confessional journalism” and at the same time remaining in line with the literary tradition he created . And in this genre he found himself. According to one of his colleagues, “Kuznetsov the fiction writer ended in London, ended due to a rare merciless demand for himself, but Kuznetsov the publicist was born,” the author of brilliant, extraordinary conversations that formed an era in the work of Radio Liberty».