Love story
“Before us is one of the greatest love stories in the world, told in the first person. But… Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante and Beatrice, Tristan and Isolde still somehow faltered before the merciless world - whereas Ülo and Lidia overcame it. A plot worthy of Hollywood…,” - wrote art critic Andrei Kovalev on the occasion of the publication of “My Sooster” in 2000.
“…a truly postmodern book: a beautiful homage to a modernist hero; the story of Moscow’s avant-garde artists of the late 1950s and the 1960s and of their lives; a story of the atmosphere of that milieu; and, last but not least, the autobiographical story of an artist’s wife - in which many an artist’s wife recognizes herself and identifies with it - yet it remains, nevertheless, a story only about Lidia Sooster, whose greatness and uniqueness are precisely what they are through the other, central figure,” writes art historian Reet Varblane in the book’s afterword.