Nothing special

Victoria Tokareva is a famous writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian viewers from her favorite films from childhood: “Literature Lesson”, “Gentlemen of Fortune”, “Mimino”, “A Dog Walked Along the Piano”, “You Are...”. A special place in Tokareva’s work is occupied... by short stories and novellas, warm and lively, with gentle humor, written in an inimitable, light, “Tokarevsky” language. With cute characters who sometimes remind us of ourselves. “Pushkin's calmness” - this is what one can say about the prose of Victoria Tokareva, whose works console and help to accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity and fragile charm. This edition includes stories and novellas from the 1983 collection of the same name.