The book by Natalia Leonidovna Trauberg (1928–2009), a renowned translator of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and P.G. Wodehouse, is a collection of essays united by the experience of resisting totalitarianism and spiritual emptiness. The essays included in the book offer lessons in free communication that are sincere, empathetic, and engaging.

Among those discussed by the author are Father Alexander Men, S.S. Averintsev, Tomas Venclova, Father Georgy Chistyakov, and many others.

2nd edition.