Ludmila Shtern was friends with the young poet Brodsky in Russia, where he was not published, branded by the parasite and drone, tried and exiled as a parasite, and then pushed into exile. She was friends with the famous poet Joseph Brodsky and the West, where he was awarded the geniuses, the U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Stern's book is not a literary biography of Brodsky. With great warmth, it draws a controversial but truthful image of a man who remained her friend for almost forty years old. Memoirs gives Stern portrait generation Russian intellectuals, who lived during the artistic quest and political persecution. Although this book is written about individuals, it reads like an exciting novel. Its episodes, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, illustrated with photographs from the personal archives of the author. Ludmila Shtern (born in 1935) - a journalist, novelist, a geologist by education, PhD. In 1976 she immigrated to United States. Printed in Russian foreign cultural periodicals, American magazines, the St. Petersburg Zvezda and other publications. Author of the book "Under the Sign of Four" (1984), "The Poet without a pedestal" and others. She lives in Boston.
