UDC 821.161.1-31BBK 84 (2Ros-Rus)6KTK 610S38

Sinitskaya S. The system of Colonel Smolov and Major Perov. Grisha Nedokvasov: stories. - St. Petersburg. : Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House LLC, 2020. - 249 pp.

In the new book of the prize winner named after. N.V. Gogol Sofia Sinitskaya included two stories - “The System of Colonel Smolov and Major Perov” and “Grisha Nedokvasov”. The first tells about the life and death of the Leningrad Tsvetkov family, who incredibly happened to survive the war twice. The second is the story of the actor and puppet master Nedokvasov, accused of involvement in the murder of Kirov and exiled to Pechorlag along with the doll Petrushka, where he shows performances to the little enemies of the people. An elegant and sometimes wonderful mixture of tragedy and phantasmagoria, as a result of which a villain can turn into a hero , and everyday life - a gloomy fairy tale, coupled with an unusual, but stylistically accurate manner of narration makes these stories unpredictable, bright and convincing in their extraordinaryness.

ISBN 978-5-8370-0748-4