One hundred bright short stories about Yekaterinburg at the breakdown of eras, written by one of the most charismatic modern prose writers.
In the “dashing nineties” bandits of Yoburg poured each other from the “Kalash”, businessmen forged capital, and politicians fought for power. These were times of lawlessness, devastation and poverty, times of rallies, hunger strikes and unemployment. And in these hopeless years, aunts from the Museum of the Writers of the Urals walked around the offices and begged, persuaded, and made: help, help, help culture. Everyone at school was once taught: “In the days of painful thoughts about the fate of the Motherland, you are alone for me support and support, about the great, mighty Russian language!” And in the OMPU these textbook words understood somehow quite literally. And therefore, literary aunts were stronger than the dashing era. In the middle of the rampant Yoburg, these aunts built their small right city.
There is no city of Yoburg on the map. In the Soviet Union there was a closed industrial giant city of Sverdlovsk, in Russia it turned into a Haitec euro-Asian metropolis ek …
Author
Ivanov Alexey Viktorovich
Publisher
AST, 2014
Series
Prose of Alexei Ivanov
16+
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