About the book: 2017 / Beautiful Marina teaches music, sleeps with girls, is friends with dissidents, reads banned books and hates the Soviet Union. With each new lover, she feels more and more acutely her loneliness and lack of meaning in life. Only love for the secretary of the party committee, outwardly a double of the great anti-Soviet writer, finally brings her to harmony - Marina dissolves in a stream of Soviet cliches, losing her identity. Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Marina’s Thirtieth Love,” written in 1982–1984, is accurate and funny a sketch from the life of Andropov's Moscow, its types, morals and habits, but not only. In Marina herself, the late Soviet man is masterfully generalized; in the plot, the choice that faced him every day is brought to the grotesque. In his characteristic ironic manner, translating the ethical into the aesthetic plane, Sorokin helps to understand how the mechanism of renunciation of one’s own self works. Contains obscene language.