About What Wasn't. Flying Swings

Victoria Tokareva is a renowned writer and screenwriter, familiar to Russian audiences from beloved childhood films: "Literature Lesson", "Gentlemen of Fortune", "Mimino", "The Dog Walked on the Piano", "You Are...". A special place in Tokareva's work is occupied by short stories and novellas, warm and alive, with gentle humor, written in an inimitable, light, "Tokarev" language. With charming characters that sometimes resemble ourselves. "Pushkin's Calm" — 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. ...If one tries to be oneself — to say what you think, to do what you consider necessary, to fear nothing and no one — it will turn out that lasting more than a day is very difficult. At first, this may seem like a game, but later you will have to live truthfully or admit defeat... This edition includes stories from the 1960s-1970s from the first author collections, as well as the novella "A Greek Was Riding".