A distinctive feature of the prose of Gogol Prize winner Sofia Sinitskaya is a thick fusion of precise, dense writing, vivid phantasmagoria and genuine tragedy. You never know how one or another of her stories will turn out - a dark fairy tale, everyday drama or colorful fireworks. Here everything is convincing and everything is incredible, here every person is a wonder. The new book includes three stories - “Grisha Nedokvasov”, “The System of Colonel Smolov and Major Perov” and “The Merchant and Akulka Dura, or the Atonement for the Sins of Alienora of Aquitaine”. The stories are interconnected both by the intersections of the characters and the general organic nature of the text.