A millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream-like fits, is arrested and accused of murder. Slipping between the menacing dream world of the student's fevered imagination, and the dark back alleys of the Paris underworld, The Bud[...]

Gajto Gazdanov prinadlezhit k tomu krugu russkikh pisatelej, kotorykh v Rossii dolgoe vremja ne znali i ne chitali. Primknuv posle revoljutsii k belomu dvizheniju, on tak i ne vernulsja na rodinu, razdeliv sudbu mnogikh russkikh emigrantov. Zhivja v Parizhe, rabotal portovym gruzchikom, mojschikom p[...]