Monday Begins on Saturday

A magical story about a world where magic — is a profession, and enthusiasts work day and night to find practical applications for miracles and put them at the service of progressive humanity. Programmer Sasha Privalov finds himself in a strange institute where sorcery and magic are studied using strictly scientific methods. The naive newcomer is in for a sea of impressions: witches, ghouls, corpses, duplicates, parallel realities, a director of the research institute with two faces, and a scholarly cat suffering from sclerosis. One of the lightest and most humor-filled works of the Strugatsky brothers.