The Oddities of Love, or Masters and Servants

Victoria Tokareva is a well-known writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian viewers from beloved childhood films: «Literature Lesson», «Gentlemen of Fortune», «Mimino», «A Dog Walked Across the Piano», «You Are...». A special place in Tokareva's work is occupied by stories and novellas that are warm and lively, with gentle humor, written in an inimitable, light, «Tokarevian» language. With charming characters who sometimes remind us of ourselves. «Victoria Tokareva looks at the world as if no other eyes have seen it yet, as if she has been given the opportunity to discover the nature and essence of things for the first time... she reopens the world around us», — wrote Yury Nagibin. «Pushkin's calmness» — this can be said about the prose of Victoria Tokareva, whose works comfort and help to accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity, and fragile beauty. The publication includes prose works by Victoria Tokareva, including the novellas «Accidental Connection», «My Men», «Houses Stand Longer Than People», stories «Mulia, who did you bring?», «Letter», «Unlucky Fima», «Only Deceit Everywhere», «Sorry for the Bastards Too» and others.