The book of stories by Georgy Golubenko “Red City, or the Four Sides of Laughter” is an unexpected fusion of humor and lyricism, grotesque and reality. The eternal carnival of Odessa life is described by the author with irony and love. Odessa is not only the city where the author lives. It is also a city living in his imagination. Odessa by Georgy Golubenko is a city that may no longer exist in the world, but thanks to the author it continues to live. How Babel’s Odessa, Kataeva’s Odessa, Ilf and Petrov’s Odessa continue to live. And if we add to this that such a concentration of brilliant humor, as in Golubenko’s stories, is rarely seen in today’s prose, the following conclusion can be drawn: you need to buy at least two books – one for yourself, the other as a gift...