Why is everything so — so sad and absurd, so random and funny? The heroes (and heroines) of these short stories ride the subway, monitor the dynamics of currency trends on computer monitors, learn to drive a car, languish at stupid corporate parties and think about what to do with an unexpected pregnancy.
Why is everything so — so sad and absurd, so random and funny? The heroes (and heroines) of these short stories ride the subway, monitor the dynamics of currency trends on computer monitors, learn to drive a car, languish at stupid corporate parties and think about what to do with an unexpected pregnancy. Accurate descriptions of urban and office realities are recognizable and cause a smile. But at the end of each story, a pang of vague anxiety is certainly felt: somehow everything goes wrong, there is too much inertia, too little meaning … The young St. Petersburg writer Ksenia Buksha composes a kind of philosophical anecdotes in which something deep emerges behind the ordinary and even the grotesque. Andrey Bitov and Victoria Tokareva once wrote this way; Buksha is their worthy successor. And the point is not in plots or views, but in a special intonation. When the author does not say the most important thing, but makes the reader feel it, you feel a slight excitement, as if you saw and understood something different about your life.
AST: Astrel, 316 p.
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