Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego is a Russian writer, grandson of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and a graduate of a Soviet orphanage for disabled children. His documentary confession novel “White on Black” (Russian Booker Prize for 2003), translated into dozens of languages, created a sensation among the reading public, the circles of which still diverge. on account of the novel, the author is trying to solve the problem: is it possible for a person who has known pain and humiliation, has undergone grave and cruel trials, to find a place on earth that will finally bring him peace and tranquility.