Pineapple Water for the Beautiful Lady

The book consists of two unequal parts: "Gods and Mechanisms" (larger), "Mechanisms and Gods" (smaller). The first part consists of two novellas: "Operation 'Burning Bush'" and "The Zenith Codes of Al-Efesbi". The second part consists of three stories: "The Contemplator of Shadows", "Thagi", and "The Hotel of Good Incarnations". The collection made it to the long list of the national literary award "The Big Book". Philosophical reflections on the possibility of artificial intelligence and the existence of the soul, the USA in Afghanistan, secret admirers of the goddess Kali and a hotel where the soul can find its new incarnation – all this is in Pelevin's book.