A Miracle is Somewhere Nearby. Tales of Everyday Life

In the book by Alyona Zhukova, delight and horror, tenderness and cruelty, the wonderful and the mundane, myth and document come together. Because she writes tales. For adults. More precisely – for the inner child that exists in each of... us. Each tale is a miniature novel, a short film. They Came Down for Christmas – about how two angels, black and white, compete for the life of a reddish waitress. Two Rings, Two Ends – about rusty scissors that changed the life of a lonely woman, from whom her husband, daughter, and cat left one after another. The Sofa – about a fateful hint from a Soviet sofa to operator Alyoshka Markin, who moved to Canada... All of Alyona Zhukova's stories revolve around imagery, because within it is concentrated the very poetry without which true prose is unthinkable.