La grande Russia portatile

A sentimental journey across the land of the tsars, the Soviets, the nouveaux riches and the most beautiful literature in the world, narrated candidly and humorously by the author through his adventure-filled, true experience.

“For me, Russia is where I became an adult. I arrived in 1991, when it was still the Soviet Union, I was there during the 1993 revolution, […] I stood in line to buy bread, I bought a Raketa watch, […] I took part in the first festival of avant-garde art, […] I did the entire Trans-Siberian journey without getting off once, […] I slept on a bench in the rare books section of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, […] I found, for the first time, the courage to give a woman flowers. In this book there’s that and a few other things, there are thirty years that have overturned the world’s largest country, which is miraculously still the same amazing place it was the first time I went there.”