About the book: year / "Frau Schram" is a vacation novel, a love story written by a man. Student of the Moscow Literary Institute Ilya Novogrudsky goes on vacation to the capital of independent Azerbaijan. A chance meeting with the wife of a former friend, with whom he begins an affair, becomes a turning point in the hero’s fate. Past and present, Moscow and Baku, politics, love, envy, long-standing other people's stories, nostalgia for childhood, noble indignation, the search for oneself are woven into a terrible knot that can neither be unknotted nor cut..