Quiet music behind the wall, or short beeps

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.
“Victoria Tokareva looks at the world as if other eyes had not yet seen it, as if she was given the opportunity to discover for the first time the nature and essence of things... she rediscovers the world around us,” wrote Yuri Nagibin.
“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. The publication includes prose works by Victoria Tokareva, including the stories “Terror with Love”, “Bird of Happiness”, “Tree on the Roof”, “Quiet Music Behind the Wall”, stories “The Crystal Slipper”, “Male Fidelity”, “Salto Mortale”, “Neither with you, nor without you”, etc.