Olga Slavnikova, a famous novelist, winner of the Russian Booker Prize, is presented here as an excellent storyteller. The stories included in the collection are fascinating and varied: love story, detective story, fantasy, popular print... And they are all united by the theme of the railway, an inexhaustible source of plots and characters. The main thing, the author says, is to be prepared to look beyond everyday reality, no matter whether you are reading this book while sitting at home in a comfortable chair or looking out the window at the landscape past which a fast train is rushing...