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"Angel on the Tip of a Needle" was created from 1969 to 1976, with the background of major events in the Soviet Union in the 1960s such as Khrushchev's resignation and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In Moscow, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper suffered a heart attack outside the Central Committee building. Investigations speculated that he had received a manuscript from an underground publication. No one knows who put it on his desk, but the content inside is very sensitive to the authorities. If it is leaked... The novel vividly reflects the mental state and living conditions of people in a specific period through the experiences and lives of many ordinary Soviet people such as the editor-in-chief's driver, newspaper colleagues, editor-in-chief's wife, son, etc. It reveals the inside story of the newspaper industry and various situations of leadership in that era, as well as the relationship between the intellectual class and the government, and the issues of love and betrayal...