Andrei Ivanov - russkii pisatel, zhivushchii v estonii, avtor romanov "Puteshestvie Khanumana na Lolland", "Gorst prakha" ("Russkaia premiia"). "Kharbinskie motylki" - novoe slovo o russkoi emigratcii. Ne Parizh, ne Berlin, ne Praga, ne Shankhai i ne Kharbin - no neissledovannyi pochti Tallin, Revel. Dvadtcatye-tridtcatye gody proshlogo veka v Pervoi estonskoi Respublike, strannye, neprikaiannye russkie, izvergnutye revoliutciei v malenkuiu stranu: tvorcheskaia bogema, ofitcery, kontrabandisty, obedinennye poiskami raboty i khleba, kokaina i morfiia… Molodoi fotokhudozhnik Boris Rebrov prozhivaet na nashikh glazakh "bedstvennoe vremia". Poteriav odnovremenno i rodinu (bolsheviki), i semiu (briushnoi tif), on ostaetsia odin v neznakomoi strane i pytaetsia naiti - sebia. V knigu voshli romany "Kharbinskie motylki" (premiia "NOS") i "Gorst prakha".