Great Paradisestan

Book excerpt: Atom Karamazov is one of the best engineers in the most secret company in the Soviet Union. He works at a nuclear weapon testing site. Atom enjoys a better food supply, living conditions, and privileges other people in the country cannot even dream of. With the collapse of the communism Atom looses his nuke paradise and ends up in a new, harsh reality. The jobless engineer longs for his lost Garden of Eden where he spent his childhood and youth. He writes a book on the great nostalgia of Humanity for paradise and various attempts to restore it on Earth. Himself, he lived in the Soviet Union that claimed to be a "workers' paradises". One day, Eva, his ex-girlfriend from the nuke testing site, visits him. She promises Atom to regain everything he has forfeited in his life. Eva travels across Russia searching his former colleagues - jobless nuke engineers. She smuggles Atom with his precious knowledge into North Korea, another "workers paradise".