Green Monkey: Natalia Galkina

The sixth book of prose “Green Monkey” Natalia Galkina, the author of thirteen poetic collections, includes two novels (“Green Monkey” and “Tabernakl”), as well as “The narrative in stories” “Museum of the city of Myshkin”.
In the polyphony of “stories”, notes of comedy, tragedy, lyrics, realistic play, farce, the theater of the absurd are heard.
The heroes of the Green Martyshka, true readers, our contemporaries, living the life of the poor and unsettled, call Petersburg a “book with a place for dates.” At this place of the meeting, which cannot be changed, characters of different times, different countries converge. Children from “Tabernakl” are opened by the centuries -old world of culture, the magical circle of imagination, looks in the dark water of the Catherine Canal, who really lived on its shore, at the middle bourgeois, the descendant of the crusaders, and the alleys, the pallets, Teriook cottages, the Ingermanic snow are not just the scenery secret diplomat and charming …

Author
Galkina Natalya Vsevolodovna
Publisher
Publishing house Neva magazine, 2012