Summer in Baden-Baden »

Leonid Tsypkin was born in Minsk in 1926 of Russian-Jewish parents,
both physicians. His last book, Summer in Baden-Baden, is the culmination of a passionate, clandestine literary vocation; a distinguished medical researcher by profession, Tsypkin never saw a page of his literary work published during his lifetime. The manuscript of
Summer in Baden-Baden was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1981, and the novel was first published in a Russian-émigré weekly in the United States. Tsypkin, who had been twice denied permission to leave the Soviet Union with his family, died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1982.

A lost masterpiece and one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century.

Tom Gallagher

Tsypkin's succinct, distinctive novel packs more...than one would have thought possible in such a little volume.