"Русская служба" - это место работы главного героя одноименного романа. Но это еще и метафора, объединяющая разнообразные сюжеты произведений Зиновия Зиника, русского писателя, давно завоевавшего известность на Западе своими романами, рассказами, эссе, переведенными на разные языки и опубликованными в Англии, Америке, Франции, Голландии, Израиле.
Zinovy Zinik is a Moscow-born bilingual author who has lived in London since 1976. Among his fourteen books of prose, translated into a number of European languages, his novel 'The Mushroom Picker' was made into a film by BBC television (1993). His recent books include 'History Thieves' (Seagull Books, 2011), a collection of essays 'Emigration as a Literary Device' (NLO, 2011) and a collection of his prose in Russian about 1970s Moscow 'Third Jerusalem' (NLO, 2013). His new comic thriller 'Sounds Familiar' or 'The Best of Artek' (2016) was recently published by Divus London. He is a regular contributor to the pages of The Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals, as well as to BBC radio.