About the book: 1986 / Ilya Zinovievich Gordon is a famous Jewish writer, author of a number of novels, novellas and short stories published in Yiddish, Russian and other languages. Readers know Ilya Gordon from the books “Weeds”, “Ingul Boyar”, “Tales and Stories”, “Three Brothers”, “In the Beginning There Were Two”, “Yesterday and Today”, “Open Spaces”, “Favorites” and others. The documentary-fiction novel “Under the Hot Sun” tells the story of a man of inexhaustible creative energy, bold searches and innovative ideas, who, together with his associates in difficult natural conditions, created the largest agro-industrial complex in the waterless Crimean steppe. The prototype of the main character of the novel was the former chairman of the Order of Lenin collective farm "Friendship of Peoples", Hero of Socialist Labor I. A. Egudin. The novel covers a large period of time, it truthfully and psychologically accurately gives a wide panorama of the lives of people of different nationalities and different destinies. The novel by I. Gordon's “Under the Hot Sun” is imbued with love for the socialist Motherland, romance, and the pathos of creation.