The new collection by Evgeny Shklovsky includes stories from recent years, as well as a short story. The author focuses on a person looking for himself in being, in time, in himself, a person on the verge of something else even in simple everyday situations... Realism and phantasmagoria, drama and irony create in his prose a bizarre atmosphere of half-dream-half-reality, where clarity and the clarity of the picture only emphasizes the unpredictability of life and the strangeness of the human soul. Shklovsky is the author of prose books “Trials” (1990), “Hostages” (1996), “That Country” (2000), “Fata Morgana” (2004), “Aquarium” (2008)