The novel “Birds Singing in a Lying Position” is an encyclopedia of Russian life. A world captured in hundreds of small fragments, each of which contains a small plot, mood, observation, adventure. A grandmother dying on a bag of marijuana, spending the night in a cardboard box and sleeping under a red banner, the flight of a striped gadfly over a swamp and the dreams of a modern descendant of nobles, death during love and love with a car... Lyrical, sentimental and tear-squeezing scenes, pictures made with humor and cynicism. Semi-philosophical reasoning and journalistic digressions, eroticism, sometimes on the verge of hard porn... Are you interested in knowing what women think about men and themselves? In its form, the novel is reminiscent of “Notes at the Bedside” by Sei-Syonagon.