The new collection by the finalist of the Big Book 2009 award, Maria Galina, is a journey into subtle worlds that exist side by side with ours. They, like slices of a strange onion, grow into one another. They are incredibly real and unusual at the same time. Here is the world of green people from Mars, capable of knocking a furious atheist Bolshevik off the ideological line. And this is the world of good fairies - railway supervisors who regulate the movement of earthly trains. And behind him is the world of the Red Duck, the treasury of an ornithologist, where a cruel huntsman lives with his young wife, and his wife is not simple and not even human, although she seems to them... For a long time there has not been a writer who knows how to awaken a teenager in an adult who has lost faith - to ignite a spiritual spark, to the tired - to restore strength and self-control in the face of trials and possible failures. Galina is that rare and unique author who right now knows how to carry on a conversation with the reader on that almost forgotten wavelength on which our loved ones spoke to us in childhood books.