 Zinik's eighteen books of prose published since his departure from Russia dwell on the dual existence of bilingual immigrants, religious converts, political exiles and outcasts – from habitués of Soho ("Mind the Door," 2001) to the sect of Jewish Muslims in Istanbul ("Yarmulkes under the Turbans", 2018).Zinik's prose first appeared in Russian émigré periodicals such as "Vremia I Mi" [Time and Us] and "Syntaxis".His early novels, - "Une Personne déplacée, Une Niche au Panthéon" and"Service Russe" - first appeared in French translations published by Albin Michel, Paris.