Outskirts of Babylon

The new book by Vladislav Otroshenko is a collection of miniatures and stories united by the common theme of the world’s illusory nature: fiction intertwines with reality, mystification with authentic facts. The texts collected together reveal "the sought-after connections between Mesopotamian Babylon, the Cossack capital of Novocherkassk, Catullus's Rome, and the Don villages, on the outskirts of which strange figures may be discovered".