It was published in France under the name « La Belle de Moscou » ("Moscow Beauty") in 1991, and in English one year later.

Beautiful and utterly perfect Irina Tarakanova relates the story of the erotic odyssey that takes her from a passionate adventure with the father of her unborn child to caring lesbian affairs with her best friend.

In 1992, the British newspaper The Independent called Erofeyev "the exuberant new iconoclast of Russian literature."

"[1] The novel was filmed by an Italian producer but was considered by the author as "unsuccessful".

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