Evgenia Kononenko is one of the most famous writers of modern Ukraine, a representative of the so-called “new” literature, which declared itself with the beginning of the country’s independence. The author of the poetry collection "Waltz of the First Snow" (1995) is a laureate of the literary competition "Granoslov", a collection of prose "Colossal Plot" (1998), a book for children "Infantasy", novels: "Imitation" (2001) - a laureate of the magazine "Suchasnist" "; “Zrada” (Kalvariya, 2002); “Nostalgia”, collection of short stories “You Can Get Married”. Evgenia Kononenko's novels and short stories, smart, unconventional, talented, imbued with humor and an ironic view of the world, have been translated into almost all European languages and have won well-deserved success everywhere. Now, finally, the Russian reader will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of this truly extraordinary Ukrainian writer in the excellent translation of Elena Marinicheva.