| Summary: | In the seven years since Vitali Vitaliev made headlines by fleeing with his family to the West, he has had to come to terms with the bewildering world outside the Soviet Union. In this kaleidoscope of a book, he describes skiing with Bill Bryson in middle America, Soho nightlife, the Tasmanian elections, a curious cache of Nazi art treasures, happy Vietnamese in Norway and hopeless Aborigines on Palm Island. He buys his first Western suit and a house with an indoor swimming pool, experiences the calm of Mount Athos and sees the end of the Berlin Wall.
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