The Fox Lived in a Hut

Elena Posvyatovskaya is a prose writer. By profession, she is an engineer-builder of nuclear power plants. Author of the novel “Vazhanka. Portrait of a Pretender,” participant in the collections “Living in St. Petersburg” and “Bird Market.”
“The book of stories "The... Fox Lived in a Hut" is destined for success with readers who are subtle, sensitive to nuances, looking for small, precious details in texts. No one here will wrap you in the sweet blankets of so-called kindness. No one will lay out the predictable solitaire: here is our good lady of diamonds, and here is how poorly she was treated by the evil ladies of spades or clubs, oh dear. On the contrary, rather.
In this, her first book, Elena Posvyatovskaya presents her prose to the reader in immediately superior quality; this is silk without synthetic additives. This is real” (Tatiana Tolstaya).