About the book: year / Leonid Zorin is a world-famous writer, but if you ask our reader who he is, the answer will most likely be bewildered silence. But as soon as we pronounce the names of three of his works, we get a different result. Who doesn’t remember “Warsaw Melody”, “Pokrovsky Gate”, “The Tsar’s Hunt”? The downside of popularity is the “shading” of the author’s figure. It is impossible to overcome this injustice with reasonable judgments, but by leaving “Zorin’s paradox” without attention, we risk omitting the main thing - the combination of greedy interest in the world around us and lyrical concentration. The writer is devoted to his key themes, consistently correlates extravagant and heterogeneous plots with personal experience, seeks and finds “his” in charming, absurd, funny and sinister characters.