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"Callejones de Arbat (Arbat alleys) narrates the adventures of a Cuban journalist in Moscow, while working in an international organization of former Soviet bloc. The plot takes place in the days of perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the European socialist system... [the novel] by Gil Alvarez recreates passages and important figures in Russian literature of the first half of the twentieth century. But the novel is more than that is a reflection on the life of writers and artists in the countries of totalitarian rule, and further, an analysis of how certain regimes repress and crush the creative talent of many of his best intellectual . It is, in short, the drama of those intellectuals anywhere in the world where individual freedom of man can be a missing value."--Barnes&Noble website.