Eduard Limonov, one of the most controversial and contradictory figures in Russia since the founding of the National Bolshevik Party, lives his adventurous life with dizzying intensity. He has had sex with countless men and women, seduced minors, became a family man, lived as a starving and party-loving dandy in the USA and Paris, founded a party, fought as a volunteer in various wars, killed, and served time in prison. His political transformation shifted from extreme left to extreme right—ultimately blurring the lines of these terms. In this genre-defying biographical novel, Carrère tells the colorful story of Eduard Limonov, reconstructing a life that fascinates and repulses him, while also sketching his own approach to contemporary Russia, capturing the reader's attention from the very first page.