About the book: 2010 / This book contains the best works of Yuri Nagibin about love, written over thirty years. He admitted that a sheet of paper for him was “an impulse for an outlet”; when there was not enough air, he splashed out his experiences on the pages. The strength of his prose lies in sincerity and confession. The scandalous story “My Golden Mother-in-Law” is an acutely social picture of the unbridled morals of the top of Soviet Stalinist society, puritanical only declaratively. The story “Daphnis and Chloe of the era of the cult of personality, voluntarism and stagnation” is about first love, about forbidden, fatal passions, and at the end of life - the tragic story of a blue frog, yearning after death for his beloved. For his eroticism, intimacy, for the frankness of his “hidden” themes, he was called the “Russian Henry Miller”; critics condemned him, broke their spears, but unanimously called his works masterpieces.