Evtushenko E. / Do Not Die Before Death / New York 1994

Evtushenko, E. Not Die Before Death. New York: Liberty Publishing House, 1994. Item #3649. ISBN: 0914481754. Binding: Softcover. Pages: 548. This is a detective novel featuring a sad and charming investigator named Palchikov, a young Russian Maigret. It is a political novel about the secret springs of the August coup. It is Yevtushenko's confessional memoir about his favorite women and how they tried to recruit him into the KGB. It contains novellas about the USSR national football team visiting a brothel in Chile, the secret love of a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and little-known aspects of the personal lives of Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and Shevardnadze. It is a romantic story of a great football player's love for a desperate Siberian rock climber. It is a novel that will make you cry and laugh, and one you cannot put down halfway through.