'40 Degrees in the Shade' is an autobiographical novel by Yuri Ginzburg. At the peak of his career, the hero, a 50-year-old doctor of technical sciences, professor, specialist in the field of cars and other self-propelled cars, in the early 90s moves from Chelyabinsk to Israel-on his own, in an old Audi-80, accompanied by a 16-year-old son and a purebred Doberman. After numerous adventures on the road, he gets to the Promised Land, where he experiences all the "charms" of emigration of a highly qualified intelligent person with an unsuitable specialty for the country of assimilation. Not wanting, like many of his colleagues, to put up with the total proletarization of Soviet emigrants, he opens a number of projects in Israel; meets with many people; works in many countries of America, Europe, Asia and Africa — and he also has something to tell about this! About all this: about life and career in the USSR, about the process of emigration, about the true face of Israel, painted in the books of refuseniks, about the transformation of ideals into reality, about the emigrant syndrome, about the peculiarities of working in different countries, about the non-standard and controversial exit that the hero of the novel eventually finds-and the author tells in his book.