Gentlemen of Fortune, or How Much is a Kilogram of Fame: Stories, Novellas, Play, Screenplay

Victoria Tokareva is a well-known writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian audiences from beloved childhood films: «Literature Lesson», «Gentlemen of Fortune», «Mimino», «The Dog Went Across the Piano», «You Are...». Special attention in Tokareva's work is given to stories and... novellas that are warm and lively, with gentle humor, written in an incomparable, light, «Tokarev style» language. With charming heroes who sometimes resemble ourselves. «Victoria Tokareva looks at the world as if no other eyes have seen it yet, as if she has been given the chance to discover the nature and essence of things for the first time... she rediscovers the world around us», - wrote Yuri Nagibin. «Pushkin's calmness» is how one can describe the prose of Victoria Tokareva, whose works comfort and help accept life as it is, in all its fullness, complexity, and fragile beauty. ...They love without demanding anything from each other. They have to lead a double life and hide their connection. But right now, it doesn't matter to them what will happen next: they feel that they cannot be separated anymore... The current edition includes stories from the 1990s, as well as the play «Well, So What» and the screenplay «Gentlemen of Fortune».