Nina Sadur is perhaps the most interesting Russian playwright of the last quarter of the twentieth century, known more in the West than in her homeland. She brings shocking plots, combined with brilliant literary language and a special mystical vision, into her prose works. Nina Sadur always works on the edge: on the edge of sleep and reality, reality and fiction, good and evil. And each time she tries to break through the “permafrost” of the hostile world around her, where everyday vulgarity and metaphysical alienation rule, into the magical land of absolute values. Not everyone is able to follow this path to the end... Nina Sadur is a prose writer and playwright who is better known in the West than in her homeland. Her plays are successfully performed on many stages around the world. Only three editions of the writer were published in Russia. This book includes works, including a series of erotic stories and two new, first-published stories about modern life. “About how today’s monsters will give birth not even to their own kind, but to demons in general.”