Taste of Dreams

The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author"™s dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar: beluga, the rarest type of sturgeon, harvested from the Caspian Sea. It is now an endangered species, and no one knows how--or wants--to stop the plunder. People kill for it. Intelligent, funny, and enormously engaging, this is a "darkly seductive tour through the new Russia."� (The Times.)