The characters of the short stories in the Gazpacho Soup collection are Soviet (both post- and anti-Soviet) intellectuals, and the plot is the experience of their assimilation into everyday life. Times, political regimes, cities and countries change, and this process - the process of adaptation, finding one's place (in life in general and in specific circumstances), career, earnings, love - invariably combines the bitterness of failure with the joy of creativity, discoveries in art, and human intimacy. This is what the writer Katya Kapovich talks about with knowledge, empathy, humor and skill. The author of the book is Katya Kapovich, a Russian and American poet and novelist. Since 1992, he has been living in Boston, Massachusetts. Winner of the Russian Prize in the Small Prose category (2012). Publications (poetry and prose) in the magazines Novy Mir (1991, 2018), Znamya' (1997, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018), ' Friendship of Peoples' (2014), 'The Star' (2004, 2006, 2007, 2017), ' Volga' (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) and others. Awards for works in English: Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress (2002). The book 'Gogol in Rome' (2004) is shortlisted for Poetry Trust's 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. The poems 'The Green One Over There', 'The Ferry' and 'Painting a Room' (2003) are included in the Poetry-180 list (recommended for poetry studies in school) of the Library of Congress.